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1862. 


ACTS  AND  RESOLUTIONS. 


No.  292.]  A  RESOLUTION 

Authorizing  the  Transfer  of  Funds  to  Foreign  Parts. 

Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  be  authorized  to 
transfer  and  place  on  deposit,  in  the  hands  of  any  foreign 
banker,  such  amount  of  money,  not  exceeding  two  millions 
of  dollars,  as  the  public  exigencies  may  require,  and  that 
he  be  authorized  to  make  the  transfer,  by  remittance  of  bills 
or  shipment  of  produce,  as  he  may  deem  most  advantageous. 

Approved  November  26,  1861. 


No.   293.]  AN  ACT 

To  admit  the  State  of  Missouri  into  the  Confederacy,  as  a 
Member  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  State  of  Missouri  be,  and  is  hereby,  admitted  as  a 
member  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  upon  an 
equal  footing  with  the  other  States  of  the  Confederacy,  un- 
der the  Constitution  of  the  Provisional  Government  of  the 
same. 

Approved  November  28,  1861. 


No.  294.]  AN  ACT 

To  enable  the  State  of  Missouri  to  elect  Members  of  the 
House  of  Representatives. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 

as  follows  : 

Section  1 .  In  case  the  State  of  Missouri  shall  adopt  and 
ratify  the  Constitution  for  the  Permanent  Government  of 
the  Confederate  States  of  America,  the  time  for  holding  in 
said  State  the  first  election  for  members  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  in  the  Congress  of  said  Confederate  States. 
under  said  Constitution,  shall  be  such  as  may  be  designated 
by  the  Legislature  of  said  State;  which  election  shall  be 
conducted,  in  all  respects,  according  to  said  Constitution 
ami  the  law  of  said  State,  then  in  force  for  that  purpose; 
and  if  no  provision  by  law  shall  have  been  made  for  such 
election,  then  according  to  the  laws  heretofore  existing 
therein  for  the  election  of  members  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  2.  The  State  of  Missouri  shall  be  entitled  to  elect 
thirteen  members  to  the  House  of  Representatives,  the  same 
being  npon  the  basis  of  one  member  for  every  ninety  thou- 
sand representative  population,  and  one  additional  member 
for  a  fraction  over  one  half  of  the  ratio  aforesaid,  under  the 
census  of  the  United  States,  taken  in  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty,  and  being  the  same  basis  of  representation  fixed  for 
the  seven  original  States,  in  said  Constitution  for  Permanent 
( i"\  ernment. 

Approved  November  29,  18C1. 


No.  295.]  A  RESOLUTION 

For  the  Relief  of  the  "Lumberton  Guards,"  (Company  D,) 
Second  Regiment  North  Carolina  Volunteers. 

Wik.rkas,  it  appears  that  the  Company  of  Volunteers 
known  as  Company  D,  of  the  Second  Regiment  of  North 
Carolina  Arolunteers,  now  serving  at  Sewcll's  Point,  in  Vir- 


ginia,  (having  been  organized  prior  to  the  admission  of  the 
State  of  North  Carolina  into  the  Confederacy,)  was  enlisted 
for  the  period  of  six  months  only,  and  has  been  erroneously 
enrolled  for  the  period  of  twelve  months, 

Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to 
discharge  the  said  Company  at  the  expiration  of  six  months 
from  the  period  when  they  were  sworn  in  and  mustered  into 
the  service  of  North  Carolina,  according  to  the  terms  of 
their  enlistment  as  aforesaid. 

Approved  December  3,  1 SG  I . 


No.  296.]  A  RESOLUTION 

Of  Thanks  to  Major-General  Sterling  Trice,  and  to  the  Offi- 
cers and  Soldiers  under  his  command,  for  Gallant  and 
Meritorious  Conduct  in  the  Present  War. 

Be  it  Resolved  by  the.  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  That  the  thanks  of  the  people  of  the  Confederate 
States  are  eminently  due.  and  are  hereby  tendered,  to  Ma- 
jor-General Sterling  Trice,  and  the  Missouri  Army  under 
his  command,  for  the  gallant  conduct  they  have  displayed 
throughout  their  service  in  the  present  war,  and  especially 
for  the  skill,  fortitude  and  courage  by  which  they  gained 
the  brilliant  achievement  at  Lexington.  Missouri,  resulting, 
on  the  twentieth  day  of  September  last,  in  the  reduction  of 
that  town  and  the  surrender  of  the  entire  Federal  Army 
there  employed. 

Beit  further  resolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  Resolution  be 
communicated  by  the  President  to  General  Trice,  and. 
through  him,  to  the  Army  then  under  his  command. 

Approved  December  3,  1861. 


No.  298.]  RESOLUTIONS 

Of  thanks  to  Major-General  Leonidas  Polk,  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral Gideon  J.  Pillow,  Brigadier-General  Benjamin  F. 
Cheatham,  and  the  officers  and  soldiers  under  their  com- 
mand, for  gallant  and  distinguished  services  in  the  present 
war. 

Whereas,  Under  the  Providence  of  God,  the  valor  of  the 
soldiers  of  the  Confederate  States  has  added  another  glorious 
victory  achieved  at  Belmont,  in  the  State  of  Missouri,  on  the 
seventh  day  of  November  last,  to  those  -which  had  been  so 
graciously  vouchsafed  to  our  arms,  whereby  the  reduction 
of  Columbus,  in  the  State  of  Kentucky,  has  been  prevented, 
and  the  contemplated  descent  of  the  enemy  down  the  Mis- 
sissippi river  effectually  stayed:   Therefore 

Be  it  resolved,  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  That  the  thanks  of  Congress  are  most  heartily  ten- 
dered to  Major-General  Leonidas  Polk,  Brigadier-General 
Gideon  J.  Tillow,  Brigadier-General  Benjamin  F.  Cheatham, 
and  the  officers  and  soldiers  of  their  gallant  commands,  for 
the  desperate  courage  they  exhibited  in  sustaining  for  seve- 
ral hours,  and  under  most  disadvantageous  circumstances, 
an  attack  by  a  force  of  the  enemy  -really  superior  to  their 
own,  both  in  numbers  and  appointments;  and  for  the  skill  and 
gallantry  by  which  they  converte  I  what  at  first  threatened  so 
much  disaster,  into  a  triumphant  victory. 

Resohed  further,  That  these  resolutions  are  intended  to 
express  what  is  believed  to  be  the  grateful  and  admiring  sen- 
timent of  the  whole  people  of  the  Confederacy. 

Resolved  further,  That  they  be  communicated  to  the  com- 
mands of  Major-General  Polk,  Brigadier-General  Pillow, 
and  Brigadier-General  Cheatham,  by  the  proper  Department 
of  the  Government. 

Approved  December  6,  1SG1. 


No.  299.]  AN  ACT 

For  the  employment   of  Laundresses  in  Military  Hospitals. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  Superintendents  of  the  different  Military  Hospitals  be, 


and  they  arc  hereby,  authorized  to  employ  Laundresses  for 
the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers,  at  such  rates,  and  in  such 
numbers,  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  War  Department. 

Approved  December  7,  1861. 


No.  300.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  appointment  of  one  or  more  officers  to  aid 
the  President  to  sign  Commissions  in  the  Army. 

The  Congress  of  tlie  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  delegate 
power  to  one  or  more  officers,  to  be  selected  by  him,  to  affix 
the  signature  of  the  President  to  Commissions  in  the  Army. 

Approved  December  7,  18G1. 


No.  301.]  AN  ACT 

For  the  admission  of  the    State  of  Kentucky  into   the  Con- 
federate States  of  America,  as  a  member  thereof. 

Section  1 .  The  Co?igress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  State  of  Kentucky  be,  and  is  hereby,  ad- 
mitted a  member  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  on 
an  equal  footing   with  the  other  States  of  this  Confederacy. 

Approved  Dec.  10,  1861. 


No.  302.  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  Secretary  of  War  to  appoint  an  Assistant. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Secretary  of  War  be,  and  he  is  hereby, 
authorized  and  empowered  to  appoint  an  assistant,  who  shall 
bo  known  as  the  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  who  shall  per- 
form such  duties  as  may  be  assigned  him  by  the  Sccretarv, 


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and  receive  as  compensation  for  his  services  three  thousand 
dollars  per  annum. 

Approved,  Dec.  10,  1861. 


No.  303.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  appointment  of  Chief  Buglers  and  Principal 
Musicians  to  Regiments  in  the  Provisional  Army. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  ap- 
point a  Chief  Bugler  or  Principal  Musician,  according  to 
corps,  to  each  Regiment  in  the  Provisional  Army. 

Approved  December   10,  1861. 


No.  304.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  appointment  of  two  additional  Clerks  and 
a  Draftsman  in  the  Navy  Department. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederates  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  be,  and  he  is 
hereby,  authorized  to  appoint  one  additional  clerk,  at  a  salary 
of  fifteen  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  one  other  additional 
clerk  at  a  salary  of  twelve  hundred  dollars,  and  one  Drafts- 
man at  a  salary  of  twelve  hundred  dollars 

Approved  January  14,  1862. 


No.  305.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  Enlistment  of  additional  Seamen. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  be  authorized  to  enlist  for  the  war  any 
additional  number  of  Seamen,  not  to  exceed  two  thousand, 
that  the  exigencies  of  the  Naval  Service,  and  the  defence  of 
the  sea  coast  and  of  rivers  and  harbors  may,  in  his  judg- 
ment, render  necessary. 

Approved  December  10,  1861. 


No.  306.]  AN  ACT 

Providing  for  the  granting  of  Bounty  and  Furloughs  to  Pri- 
vates and  Non-Commissionecl  Officers  in  the  Provisional 
Army. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  a  bounty  of  fifty  dollars  be,  and  the  same  iB 
hereby,  granted  to  all  privates,  musicians  and  non-commis- 
sioned officers  in  the  Provisional  Army,  who  shall  serve  con- 
tinuously for  three  years  or  for  the  war,  to  be  paid  at  the 
following  times,  to  wit:  To  all  now  in  the  service  for  twelve 
months,  to  be  paid  at  the  time  of  volunteering  or  enlisting, 
for  the  next  two  ensuing  years  subsequent  to  the  expiration 
of  their  present  term  of  service.  To  all  now  in  the  service  for 
three  years,  or  for  the  war,  to  be  paid  at  the  expiration  of 
their  first  year's  service.  To  all  who  may  hereafter  volun- 
teer or  enlist  for  three  years  or  for  the  war,  to  be  paid  at 
the  time  of  entry  into  service. 

Six.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  furloughs  not  ex- 
ceeding sixty  days,  with  transportation  home  and  back,  shall 
be  granted  to  all  twelve  months  men  now  in  service,  who 
shall,  prior  to  the  expiration  of  their  present  term  of  service, 
volunteer  or  enlist  for  the  next  two  ensuing  years  subsequent 
to  the  expiration  of  their  present  term  of  service  or  for  three 
years  or  the  war;  said  furloughs  to  be  issued  at  such  times 
and  in  such  numbers  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  deem  most 
compatible  with  the  public  interest ;  the  length  of  each  fur- 
lough being  regulated  with  reference  to  the  distance  of  each 
volunteer  from  his  home  :  Provided,  That  in  lieu  of  a  fur- 
lough, the  commutation  value  in  money  of  the  transportation 
herein  above  granted,  shall  be  paid  to  each  private,  musician 
or  non-commissioned  officer,  who  may  elect  to  receive  it.  at 
such  time  as  the  furlough  itself  would  otherwise  lie  granted. 

Sec.  3.  This  Act  shall  apply  to  all  troops  who  have  volun- 
teered or  enlisted  for  a  term  of  twelve  months  or  more  in  the 
service  of  any  State,  who  are  now  in  the  service  of  the  said 
State,  and  who  may  hereafter  volunteer  or  enlist  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Confederate  States  under  the  provisions  of  the 
present  Act. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  troops  re-volun- 
teering or  re-enlisting  shall,  at  the  expiration  of  their  pre- 
sent term  of  service,  have  the  power  to  re-organize  them- 


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selves  into  companies  and  elect  their  company  officers,  and 
said  companies  shall  have  the  power  to  organize  themselves 
into  battalions  or  regiments  and  elect  their  field  officers ;  and 
after  the  first  election,  all  vacancies  shall  he  filled  by  promo- 
tion from  the  company,  battalion  or  regiment  in  which  such 
vacancies  may  occur:  Provided,  That  whenever  a  vacancy 
shall  occur,  whether  by  promotion  or  otherwise,  in  the  low- 
est grade  of  commissioned  officers  of  a  company,  said  vacan- 
cy shall  always  he  filled  by  election:  And  provided  further, 
That  in  the  case  of  troops  which  have  been  regularly  enlist- 
ed into  the  service  of  any  particular  State  prior  to  the  for- 
mation of  the  Confederacy,  and  which  have  by  such  State 
been  tinned  over  to  the  Confederate  Government,  the  officers 
shall  not  be  elected,  but  appointed  and  promoted  in  the  same 
manner  and  by  the  same  authority  as  they  have  heretofore 
been  appointed  and  promoted. 

Approved  December  11,  1861. 


No.  307.]  AN  ACT 

To  divide  the  State  of  Tennessee  into  three  Judicial  Dis- 
tricts. 

.  Ti on  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact.  That  the  State  of  Tennessee  shall  constitute 
three  Judicial  Districts,  to  be  denominated  the  Eastern, 
Middle  and  Western  Districts,  the  territorial  boundaries  in 
which  shall  be  the  same  as  those  designated  by  the  laws  of 
the  I'nitcd  States,  before  the  separation  of  said  State  from 
the  Union, 

Sec.  ~.  There  shall  be,  as  heretofore,  one  District  Judge 
for  the  whole  State,  Avhose  duty  it  shall  be  to  hold  two  terms 
of  his  Court  every  year,  in  each  of  said  Divisions  or  Dis- 
tricts,  at  the  times  and  places  prescribed  by  law  at  the  time 
the  State  withdrew  from  the  United  States. 

C.  3.  Tt  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  of  the  Con- 
federate States  to  appoint  a  marshal  and  attorney,  for  each 
of  said  1  >istricts. 

Approved  December  12,  1861. 


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No.  308.]  A  RESOLUTION 

To  make  an  advance  to  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  on  ac- 
count of  her  claims  against  the  Confederate  State-. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  resolve. 
That  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  be, 
and  is  hereby,  appropriated,  as  an  advance  on  account  of 
any  claims  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina  upon  the  Con- 
federate States  ;  and  that  the  same  be  paid  to  such  person  as 
may  be  authorized  by  the  Legislature  of  South  Carolina,  to 
receive  the  same. 

Approved  December  14,  1861. 


No.  309.]  A  RESOLUTION 

Appointing  John  D.  Morris,  of  Kentucky,  a  Receiver  under 
the   Act  of    Sequestration,   approved   August   thirtieth,. 

eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  resolve. 
That  John  1>.  .Morris,  appointed  by  the  Government  of 
Kentucky,  as  their  special  Commissioner,  to  secure  the  co- 
operation of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  sequestration  of 
the  property,  effects  and  credits  of  certain  banking  corpora- 
tions of  tin'  said  State,  be  hereh  /  clothed  with  the  powers 
of  a  receiver,  under  the  Act  for  the  sequestration  of  the 
property  of  alien  enemies,  approved  thirtieth  of  August. 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  throughout  the  Confederate 
St  tes,  and  us  such,  he  alone  be  authorized  to  ascertain, 
seize  and  sequestrate  the  property,  effects  and  credits  of  all 
the  hanking  corporations,  of  the,  said  State,  that  may  have 
made  loan-,  or  extended  pecuniary  aid  to  the  United  State-. 
or  the  Government  of  Kentucky,  waging  war  against  the 
Confederate  States;  ;ind  when  SO  sequestrated,  instead 
of  paying  the  same  into  the  Treasury  of  the  Confederate 
States,  shall  account  for  and  pay  over  the  same  under  bis 
Commission,  to  the  Government  of  Kentucky. 

Approved  December  IG,  1861. 


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No.  310.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  the  Payment  of  the  Carriers  of  the  Electoral 
Votes  of  the  Respective  States  of  the  Confederacy. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  mileage,  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  a  mile  and  eight 
dollars  per  diem,  to  be  computed  for  the  number  of  days 
actually  required  by  the  ordinary  routes  of  travel  to  and 
from  the  capitals  of  the  respective  States  to  the  capital  of 
the  Confederacy,  be,  and  are  hereby,  allowed  to  the  carriers 
of  the  electoral  votes  to  the  seat  of  Government. 

Approved  December  18,  1861. 


No.  311.]  AN  ACT 

Further  Supplementary  to  An  Act  to  Authorize  the  Issue 
of  Treasury  Notes,  and  to  Provide  a  War  Tax  for  their 
Redemption. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stairs  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby 
authorized  to  pay  over  to  the  several  banks,  which  have 
made  advances  to  the  Government,  in  anticipation  of  the 
issue  of  Treasury  Notes,  a  sufficient  amount,  not  exceeding 
ten  millions  of  dollars,  for  the  principal,  of  Treasury  Notes 
to  pay  the  principal  and  interest  due  upon  the  said  advance, 
according  to  the  engagements  made  with  them. 

Sec.  2.  The  time  fixed  by  the  said  Act,  to  which  this  Act 
is  further  supplementary,  for  making  assessments,  is  hereby 
extended  to  the  first  day  of  January  next;  and  the  time  for 
the  completion  and  delivery  of  the  lists  is  extended  to  the 
first  day  of  February  next;  ami  the  time  for  the  return  of 
the  said  lists  to  the  Chief  Collector  is  extended  to  the  first 
day  of  March  next;  and  in  cases  where  the  time  thus  fixed 
shall  be  found  insufficient,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 
shall  have  power  to  make  further  extension  as  circumstances 
may  require. 

Sec.  3.  The  cash  on  hand,  or  on  deposit  in  bank,  or  else- 
where, mentioned  in  the  fourth  section  of  said  Act,  is  hereby 
declared  to  be  subject  to  assessment  and  taxation  ;   and  the 


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money  at  interest,  or  invested  by  individuals  in  the  purchase 
of  Bills,  Notes,  and  other  securities  for  money,  shall  be 
deemed  to  include  securities  Tor  money  belonging  to  non- 
residents, and  such  securities  shall  be  returned,  and  the  tax 
thereon  paid  by  any  agent  or  trustee  having  the  same  in 
possession  or  under  his  control.  The  term  merchandise  shall 
be  construed  to  include  merchandise  belonging  to  any  non- 
resident, and  the  property  shall  be  returned,  and  the  tax 
paid  by  any  person  having  the  same  in  possession  as  agent, 
attorney,  or  consignee.  Provided,  That  the  words  "  money 
at  interest,"  as  used  in  the  Act  to  which  this  Act  is  an 
amendment,  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  include  all  notes,  or 
other  evidences  of  debt,  bearing  interest  without  reference 
to  the  consideration  of  the  same.  The  exception  allowed  by 
the  twentieth  section  for  agricultural  products  shall  be  con- 
strued to  embrace  such  products  only  when  in  the  hands  of 
the  producer,  or  held  for  his  account.  But  no  tax  shall  be 
assessed  or  levied  on  any  money  at  interest  when  the  note, 
bond,  bill  or  other  security  taken  for  its  payment  shall  be 
worthless  from  the  insolvency  ami  total  inability  to  pay  of 
the  payor  or  obligor,  or  person  liable  to  make  such  payment ; 
and  all  securities  for  money  taxable  under  this  Act  shall  be 
assessed  according  to  their  value,  and  the  assessor  shall  have 
the  same  power  to  ascertain  the  value  of  such  securities  as 
the  law  confers  upon  him  with  respect  to  other  property. 

Sec.  4.  That  an  amount  of  money,  not  exceeding  twenty- 
five  thousand  dollars,  shall  be.  and  the  same  is  hereby,  ap- 
propriated, out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise 
■  appropriated,  to  be  disbursed  under  the  authority  of  the  Se- 
cretary of  the  Treasury,  to  the  Chief  State  Tax  Collectors, 
for  such  expenses  as  shall  be  actually  incurred  for  salaries 
of  clerks,  office  hire,  stationery  and  incidental  charges  ;  but 
the  books  and  printing  required  shall  be  at  the  expense  of 
the  Department,  and  subject  to  its  approval. 

Sec.  5.  The  lien  for  the  tax  shall  attach  from  the  date  of 
the  assessment,  and  shall  follow  the  same  into  every  State  of 
this  Confederacy;  and  in  case  any  person  shall  attempt  to 
remove  any  property  which  may  lie  liable  to  tax.  beyond  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  State,  in  which  the  tax  is  payable,  without 
payment  of  the  tax,  the  Collector  of  the  District  may  dis- 
train upon  and  sell  the  same,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  pro- 
vided in  cases  where  default  is  made  in  the  payment  of  the 
tax. 

Sec  6.  On   the  report  of  any  Chief  Collector,  that  any 


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county,  town  or  district,  or  any  part  thereof,  is  occupied  by 
the  public  enemy,  or  has  been  so  occupied  as  to  occasion 
destruction  of  crops  or  property,  the  Secretary  of  the  Trea- 
sury may  suspend  the  collection  of  the  tax  in  such  region 
until  the  same  can  be  reported  to  Congress  and  its  action 
had  thereon. 

Sec  7.  In  case  any  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  un- 
dertake to  pay  the  tax  to  be  collected  within  its  limits,  before 
the  time  at  which  the  District  Collectors  shall  enter  upon  the 
discharge  of  their  duties,  the  Secretaiy  of  the  Treasury  may 
suspend  the  appointment  of  such  collectors,  and  may  direct 
the  Chief  Collector  to  appoint  assessors,  and  to  take  proper 
measures  for  the  making  and  perfecting  the  returns,  assess- 
ments and  lists  required  by  law  ;  and  the  returns,  assess- 
ments and  lists  so  made  shall  have  the  same  legal  validity, 
to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  if  made  according  to  the  pro- 
visions of  the  Act  to  which  this  Act  is  supplementary. 

Sec.  8.  That  tax  lists  already  given,  varying  from  the 
provisions  of  this  Act,  shall  be  corrected  so  as  to  conform 
thereto. 

Approved  December  19,  1S61. 


No.  312.]  AN  ACT 

Providing  for  the  Transfer   of  certain  appropriations. 

Section  I .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  all  sums  remaining  unexpended  out  of  the  ap- 
propriations made  by  the  following  acts,  to  wit :  First,  "An 
act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  the  regular 
army  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  for  twelve 
months,  and  for  other  purposes,"  approved  March  eleventh, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one  ;  Second,  "  An  act  making 
appropriations  in  addition  to  those  already  made  for  the  mil- 
itary service  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  for  the 
fiscal  year  ending  the  eighteenth  day  of  February,  one  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,"  approved  May  twenty- 
first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  be,  and  the  same  are 
hereby,  ordered  to  be  transferred  for  distribution  and  expen- 
diture in  the  manner  provided  in  the  second  section  of  an 
act  entitled,  "An  act  making  appropriations  for  the  Public 


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Defence,"   approved  on    the  twenty-first  day  of   August, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Approved  December  18,  1861. 


No.  313.]  AX  ACT 

To  establish  the  date  from  which  the  Commissions  of  certain 
staff  officers  shall  take  effect. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Aim  a 
do  enact,  That  all  Surgeons.  Assistant  Surgeons,  Quarter- 
masters, Commissaries  and  Assistant  Quartermasters   and 

Commissaries,  appointed  and  commissioned  in  the  Provision- 
al Army,  and  who  may  have  commenced  their  service  before 
receiving  their  commissions,  shall  be  entitled  to  take  rank 
and  receive  pay  from  the  date  when  they  actually  commenced 
to  perform  their  respective  duties,  with  troops  in  the  service 
of  the  Confederacy. 

Approved  December  18,  1861. 


No.  314.]  A  RESOLUTION 

Of  thanks  to  Brigadier-General  N.  G.  Evans  and  the  officers 
and  soldiers  under  lvs  command,  for  their  gallant  conduct 
in  the  battle  of  Leesburg/*. 

Section  1 .  Be  it  resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate 
States  of  America,  That  the  thanks  of  Congress  are  due,  and 
are  hereby  tendered  to  Brigadier-General  N.  G.  Evans,  and 
the  officers  and  soldiers  under  his  command,  for  the  brilliant 
victory  achieved  by  them  over  largely  superior  forces  of  the 
enemy  in  the  battle  of  LeesburgA. 

Approved  December  18,  1861. 


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No.  315.]  AN  ACT 

For  the  Recruiting  Service  of  the  Provisional  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Secretary  of  War  be,  and  he  is  hereby, 
authorized  to  adopt  measures  for  recruiting  and  enlisting 
men  for  companies  in  service  for  the  War,  or  three  years, 
which,  by  the  casualties  of  the  service,  have  been  reduced 
by  death  and  discharges. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Secretary  of 
War  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  detail  the  company 
commissioned  officers  for  the  above  duty,  in  such  numbers 
and  at  such  times  as,  in  his  opinion,  will  best  comport  with 
the  public  service ;  the  officers  thus  appointed  to  enlist  and 
recruit  for  their  respective  companies. 

Approved,  December  19,  1861. 


No.  817.]  RESOLUTIONS 

Relating  to   Maryland. 

Whereas,  The  State  of  Maryland  has  suffered  the  same 
wrongs  which  impelled  these  Confederate  States  to  withdraw 
from  the  United  States,  and  is  intimately  associated  with 
these  States  by  geographical  situation,  by  mutual  interest, 
by  similarity  of  institutions  and  by  enduring  sentiments  of 
reciprocal  amity  and  esteem ;  and  whereas,  it  is  believed 
that  a  large  majority  of  the  good  people  of  Maryland  ear- 
nestly desire  to  unite  their  State  with  the  Confederate . 
States,  a  desire  which  is  proved  to  exist  even  by  the  violent, 
extraordinary  and  tyrannical  measures  employed  by  our 
enemy  to  restrain  the  expression  thereof:  and  whereas,  the 
Government  of  the  United  States,  by  imprisoning  members 
of  the  Legislature  of  Maryland,  by  establishing  powerful 
armies  of  foreign  troops  within  that  State  and  along,  her 
borders,  and  by  suppressing  with  armed  force  the  freedom  of 
speech  and  of  elections,  has  prevented  the  people  and  their 
representatives  from  adopting  the  political  connection  which 


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they  prefer,  and,  in  revenge  of  their  preference,  has  inflicted 
upon  them  many  outrages,  and  established  over  them  a  for- 
eign despotism:  and  whereas,  the  accession  of  Maryland  to 
this  Confederation  will  be  mutually  beneficial,  and  is  essen- 
tial to  the  integrity  and  security  of  the  Confederate  Union: 
be  it  therefore — 

First.  Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  That  the  sufferings  of  the  good   people  of  Mary- 
land,  under   the   oppression  of  our  enemy,  excite  our   pro- 
found  sympathy,  and  entitle    them   to   speedy   and  effir 
exertions  on  our  part  for  their  relief. 

Second.  That  it  is  the  desire  of  this  Government,  by  ap- 
propriate measures,  to  facilitate  the  accession  of  Maryland, 
with  the  free  consent  of  her  people,  to  the  Confederate 
States. 

Third.  That  no  peace  ought  to  be  concluded  with  the 
United  States,  which  does  not  ensure  to  Maryland  the  op- 
portunity of  forming  a  part  of  this  Confederacy. 

Approved  December  21,  1861. 


No.  318.]  AN  ACT 

To  Determine  the  Number  of  Members  the  State  of  Ken- 
tucky shall  be  entitled  to  have  in  the  House  of -Represen- 
tatives of  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  in 
relation  to  the  Election  and  Returns  thereof. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  State  of  Kentucky  shall  be  entitled  to 
have  in  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Congress  of 
the  Confederate  States,  twelve  members. 

Sec.  2.  These  members  shall  be  elected  in  the  manner,  at 
the  time,  and  at  the  places  which  have  been,  or  may  hereaf- 
ter be,  prescribed  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State,  subject 
to  the  provisions  of  the  Constitution  of  the  Confederate 
States. 

Sec  3.  The  persons  elected  shall  be  certified  by  the  Gov- 
ernor. 

Approved  December  2 1 ,  1861. 
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No.  319.]  AN  ACT 

In  relation  to  Taxes  on  Property  which  has  been,  or  which 
is  liable  to  be  Sequestered  as  the  Property  of  Alien 
Enemies. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
as  follows  : 

Section  1.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Receivers, 
under  the  Sequestration  Act,  to  pay  all  taxes  upon  property 
of  alien  enemies,  which  is  liable  therefor,  within  their  re- 
spective districts,  out  of  any  funds  in  their  hands  as  Re- 
ceivers, said  payment  to  be  charged  to  the  account  of  the 
property  upon  which  the  tax  has  been  paid;  Provided,  how- 
ever, if  it  appear  to  any  Receiver  that  such  property,  in  any 
case,  is  not  worth  more  than  the  taxes  for  which  it  is  liable,  he 
shall  report  the  facts  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  whose 
duty  it  shall  be  to  instruct  the  Receiver  whether  he  shall 
pay  the  taxes  or  allow  the  property  to  be  sold  for  the  taxes. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  Receivers  be  authorized  to  sell  by  order 
of  Court,  and  in  such  manner,  and  upon  such  terms,  as  the 
Court  may  prescribe,  any  property  within  their  respective 
districts,  which  has  been  sequestered,  or  which  is  liable 
thereto,  for  the  purpose  of  raising  money  for  the  payment 
of  the  taxes  aforesaid. 

Sec.  3.  That  whenever  a  Receiver  has  not  funds  in  hand, 
over  and  above  what  is  necessary  for  other  expenditures, 
sufficient  to  pay  said  taxes,  and  cannot  obtain  the  same  by 
sale  as  aforesaid,  within  the  time  fixed  for  the  payment  of 
said  taxes,  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  give,  to  the  tax  col- 
lector charged  with  the  collection  of  the  taxes,  a  certificate 
of  the  amount  due,  and  he  shall  specify  therein  the  property 
upon  which  the  same  is  due ;  and  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  shall  pay  the  amount  so  certified  to  be  due,  and 
shall  cause  the  same  to  be  charged  to  the  Sequestration 
fund.  But  the  giving  of  the  certificate  shall  be  subject  to 
the  same  condition  precedent  as  provided  in  regard  to  pay- 
ment in  the  first  section  of  this  Act. 

Sec.  4.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  be  au- 
thorized to  make  agreements  with  the  several  States,  counties 
cities  and  towns  for  the  postponement  of  the  collection  of 
taxes  for  which  the  property  of  alien  enemies,  sequestered, 
or  liable  to  be ;  and  in  case  any  one  or  more  of  the  States, 


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counties,  cities  or  towns  consent  to  the  same,  he  is  hereby 
empowered  to  issue  certificates  for  the  amount  due,  bearing 
interest  at  the  rate  of  six  per  cent,  per  annum,  which  shall 
bind  the  Government  to  pay  the  same,  and  -which,  when 
paid,  shall  be  charged  to  the  Sequestration  Fund. 

Sec.  5.  That  whenever  the  property  of  an  alien  enemy 
sequestered,  or  liable  thereto,  has  been,  or  shall  hereafter 
be,  sold  for  taxes,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby 
authorized,  with  the  assent  of  the  State  in  which  the  pro- 
perty has  been  sold,  to  redeem  the  same  by  the  payment  of 
the  sum  or  sums  required  to  be  paid  by  citizens  in  such 
case,  or  by  the  issue  of  certificates  therefor,  as  herein  be- 
fore provided,  should  he  deem  it  advisable,  and  in  all  such 
cases,  such  property  shall  go  into  the  hands  of  the  Receiver 
for  the  district  in  which  the  same  is  situate,  and  be  held  and 
accounted  for  in  the  same  manner  as  other  sequestered  pro- 
perty; provided  the  amount  of  the  r.nlemption  shall  be 
charged  to  the  Sequestration  Fund. 

Approved  December  23,  1861. 


No.  321.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  "  An  Act  to  Require  the  Receipt  by  the  Post- 
masters of  the  Confederate  States  of  Treasury  Notes,  in 
Sums  of  Five  Dollars  and  upwards,  in  Payment  of  Pos- 
tage Stamps  and  Stamped  Envelopes/'  Approved  August 
thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact.  That  the  provisions  of  "  An  Act  to  require  the  re- 
ceipt by  the  Postmasters  of  the  Confederate  States,  of  Trea- 
sury Notes,  in  sums  of  five  dollars  and  upwards,  in  payment 
of  Postage  stamps  and  stamped  envelopes, "  approved  August 
thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  be,  and  the  same 
are  hereby,  so  extended  as  to  require  the  Postmasters  of  the 
Confederate  States  to  receive  the  Treasury  Notes  of  the 
Confederate  States  in  payment  of  postage  in  sums  equal  to 
the  denomination  of  said  Treasury  Notes,  and  to  receive  the 
same  on  deposit  for  advance  payment  of  such  postage. 

Approved  December  23,  1801. 


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No.  323.]  AN  ACT 

To  Authorize  the  President  to  confer  Temporary  Rank  and 
Command  on  Officers  of  the  Navy,  doing  Duty  with 
Troops. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized 
to  confer  on  any  officer  of  the  navy  ordered  to  do  duty  on 
shore  with  troops,  such  temporary  military  rank  and  com- 
mand, and  with  such  limitations  and  restrictions  as  he  may 
deem  proper. 

Sec.  2.  Any  officer  of  the  navy  on  whom  military  rank 
and  command  shall  be  conferred,  in  virtue  of  the  foregoing 
section,  shall  retain  his  rank  in  the  navy,  and  shall  be  enti- 
tled only  to  the  same  pay  and  emoluments  that  he  Avould 
have  received  if  no  such  rank  and  command  had  been  con- 
ferred on  him. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


No.  324.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act  entitled  An  Act  to  Establish  a  Uniform 
Rule  of  Naturalization  for  Persons  Enlisted  in  the 
Armies  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Cot  federate  S  tat  es  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  provisions  of  the  above  recited  Act  be,  and 
the  same  are  hereby,  extended  to  all  persons,  not  citizens  of 
one  of  the  Confederate  States,  who  are  engaged  in  the  naval 
service  of  the  Confederate  States,  during  the  present  war 
with  the  United  States:  Provided,  however,  That  the  oath 
therein  prescribed  may  be  administered  by  the  Captain  or 
other  commanding  officer  of  any  national  ship,  to  all  per- 
sons entitled  to  the  benefit  of  this  Act  and  attached  thereto, 
and  that  the  duties  therein  imposed  upon  the  Secretary  of 
War,  in  regard  to  persons  in  the  military  service,  shall  be 
performed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  in  reference  to  per- 
sons in  the  naval  service. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


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No.  327.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  the  Appointment  of  Chaplains  in  the  Navy. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  whenever  any  vessel  of  the  Confederate  States  Navy 
shall  be  aboul  to  depart  for  any  point  beyond  the  limits  of 
the  Confederate  States,  the  President  may,  in  his  discretion, 
employ  a  Chaplain  for  the  voyage,  who  shall  receive  the 
same  pay  and  emoluments  as  Chaplains  in  the  Army. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


No.  328.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  certain  Officers  of  the  Revenue   Service. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate.  States  of  America  do  enact, 
Thai  the  President  is  hereby  authorized,  in  his  discretion, 
to  employ,  during  the  war,  any  persons  who  were  officers  in 
the  Revenue  Service  of  the  United  States,  but  who  resigned 
in  consequence  of  the  secession  of  either  of  these  States,  or 
who  may  have  been  removed  from  office  on  account  of  their 
adhesion  to  the  Confederate  States,  or  any  one  of  them,  in 
such  naval  or  military  service  as  the  public  interest  may  re- 
quire, and  at  such  salary  as  he  may  determine  :  Provided, 
it  shall  not  exceed  the  pay  to  which  the  officer  so  employed 
was  entitled  to  receive  from  the  United  States. 

Approved  December  24,  1S61. 

No.  329.]  AN  ACT 

To  Authorize  the  Transfer  of  a  Certain  Appropriation. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  unexpended  balance  of  an  appropriation  made  by 
the  Act  entitled  *'An  Act  to  provide  for  the  pay  of  officers 
who  have  resigned  from  the  United  States  Navy,  and  whom 
it  is  proposed  to  add  to  the  Confederate    States   Navy,"  ap- 


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proved  May  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one, 
be.  and  the  same  h  hereby,  transferred  to  the  appropriation 
made  in  the  first  section  of  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  mak- 
ing appropriations  for  the  support  of  the  Navy,  for  the  year 
ending  fourth  of  February,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 
approved  March  fifteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


No.  331.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize   the  appointment  of  additional   officers  of  the 

Navy. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  ap- 
point the  following  officers  of  the  Navy,  in  addition  to  those 
heretofore  authorized,  to  wit:  two  captains;  five  command- 
ers; fifty  lieutenants;  ten  assistant  paymasters,  and  thirty 
assistant  surgeons;  said  appointments  to  be  made  from  the 
Navy  and  from  civil  life,  as  the  President  may  sec  fit,  and 
to  terminate  at  the  end  of  the  war. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


No.  332.]  AN  ACT 

Making  appropriations  for  the  expenses  of  Government,  in 
the  Legislative,  Executive  and  Judicial  Departments,  for 
the  year  ending  eighteen  of  February,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two. 

Section  I .  The  ( Congress  of  th  e  Confederate  States  of  America 
iL>  i unci .  That  the  following  sums  be,  and  the  same  are 
hereby,  appropriated  for  the  objects  hereafter  expressed,  for 
the  year  ending  the  eighteenth  of  February,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  -ixty-two. 


Legislative. — For  compensation  and  mileage  of  members 
of  Congress,  seventy-two  thousand  dollars. 

Executive. — For  compensation  of  private  Secretary  and 
Messenger  of  the  President,  two  hundred  and  thirty  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  Assistant 
Secretary  of  State,  Clerks,  and  Messenger,  eight  hundred 
and  eighteen  dollars  and  forty-four  cents. 

For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  As- 
sistant Secretary,  Comptroller,  Auditors,  Treasurer  and  Re- 
gister, and  Clerks  and  Messengers  in  the  Treasury  Depart- 
ment, twenty  thousand  dollars. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Treasury 
Department,  three  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  one  additional  laborer  for  the  Trea- 
sury Department,  one  hundred  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  Secretary  of  War.  Chief  of  Bureau. 
and  Clerks  and  Messengers  in  the  War  Department,  six 
thousand  dollars. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  War  De- 
partment, ten  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and  Clerks 
and  Messengers  in  his  office,  one  thousand  and  seventy-five 
dollars. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Navy  De- 
partment, three  thousand  five  hundred  dollars. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Post  Office 
Department  one  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Attorney  General.  Assistant 
Attorney  General,  Clerks  and  Messenger  in  the  Department 
of  Justice,  four  hundred  and  thirty-four  dollars. 

For  salary  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Printing, 
five  hundred  dollars. 

For  printing  for  the  several  Executive  Departments  o! 
the  Government,  thirty-seven  thousand  dollars. 

Judiciary. — For  salaries  of  Judges,  Attorneys,  and  Mar- 
shals, and  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  Courts,  for- 
ty-four thousand  dollars. 

Miscellaneous. — For  compensation  of  Agents,  and  for 
costs  of  materials,  and  constructing,  repairing  and  operating 
telegraph  lines,  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 

I'i  i  i.ic  Debt; — For  payment  of  interest  on  the  Public 
Debt,  three  hundred  thousand  dollars. 


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War  Department. — For  the  pay  of  officers  and  privates 
of  the  army,  volunteers  and  militia,  in  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States,  for  Quartermaster's  supplies  of  all  kinds, 
transportation,  and  other  necessary  expenses,  forty-six  mil- 
lions, thirty-two  thousand  one  hundred  and  ninety-nine  dol- 
lars. 

For  the  purchase  of  subsistence,  stores,  and  commissary 
property,  nine  million  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand,  eight 
hundred  and  seven  dollars. 

For  the  ordnance  service  in  all  its  branches,  two  million 
three  hundred  and  forty  thousand  dollars. 

For  the  Engineer  service,  one  hundred  and  thirty-five 
thousand  dollars. 

For  Surgical  and  Medical  supplies  of  the  Army,  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

For  contingencies  of  the  Army,  thirty-four  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

For  contingent  expenses  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector 
General's  office,  including  office  furniture,  stationery,  printed 
blanks  for  the  use  of  the  army,  postage,  telegraphic  dis- 
patches, and  so  forth,  and  so  forth,  six  thousand,  seven  hun- 
dollars. 

Navy  Department. — For  provisions,  clothing,  and  con- 
tingencies in  the  Paymaster's  Department,  fifty  thousand 
dollars. 

For  contingents  enumerated,  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

For  medical  supplies  and  surgeon's  necessaries,  ten  thou- 
sand dollars. 

For  equipment  and  repair  of  vessels  of  the  nav^,  fifty 
thousand  dollars. 

For  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  five  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars. 

For  purchase  and  building  of  steamers  and  gunboats,  for 
coast  defences  of  the  Confederate  States,  two  millions  of 
dollars. 

For  repairing  and  fitting  the  steamer  Merrimac  as  an 
iron-clad  ship,  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

For  floating  defences  for  the  Mississippi,  five  hundred 
thousand  dollars. 

For  iron  and  copper  for  the  use  of  the  navy,  five  hundred 
and  thirty-five  thousand  [dollars.] 


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For  coal  for  steamers,  five  hundred  thousand  dollars. 
For  pay  of  officers  and  others  employed  at  the  navy  yard 
at  Norfolk,  Virginia,  forty-five  thousand  dollars. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


No.  333.]  AN  ACT 

Supplementary  to  an  Act  to  Authorize  the  Issue  of  Treasury 
Notes,  and  to  Provide  a  War  Tax  for  their  Redemption. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 

do  enact,  That  the  authority  granted  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  to  issue  Treasury  Notes  by  the  Act  to  authorize 
the  issue  of  Treasury  Notes,  and  to  provide  a  War  Tax  for 
their  redemption,  approved  August  nineteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-cue,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  extended 
and  enlarged,  so  as  to  authorize  the  issue  of  an  additional 
amount  of  fifty  millions  of  Treasury  Notes  of  the  same 
character,  and  subject  to  the  same  provisions  as  the  Notes 
authorized  by  the  said  Act. 

Sec.  2.  The  Secretary  of'the  Treasury,  with  the  approval 
of  the  President,  in  addition  to  the  Bonds  authorized  to  be 
issued  by  the  second  section  of  the  said  Act,  approved 
August  nineteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  to  which 
this  is  supplementary,  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue  Bonds, 
not  to  exeeed  at  any  one  time  an  amount  of  thirty  millions 
of  dollars,  payable  not  more  than  twenty  years  after  date, 
and  to  bear  an  interest  not  to  exeeed  six  per  centum  per  an- 
num, interest  payable  semi-annually;  to  bo  exchanged  for 
Treasury  Notes  issued  under  authority  of  this  Act,  or  of 
the  Act  to  which  this  is  supplementary ;  and  said  Bonds 
may,  at  the  option  of  the  holder,  be  re-converted  into  Trea- 
sury Notes,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Treasury  may  prescribe,  and  the  Bonds  and 
Treasury  Notes  authorized  by  this  Act,  to  be  subject  to  the 
same  provisions,  in  all  respects,  not  contrary  to  the  provi- 
sions of  this  Act,  as  the  Ponds  and  Treasury  Notes  author- 


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ized  to  be  issued  by  the  Act  of  the  nineteenth  August, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  to  which  this  is  supplemen- 
tary. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


No.  334.]  AN  ACT 

Making    Appropriations   to    Comply   in   Part    with    Treaty 
Stipulations  made  with  certain  Indian  Tribes. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  following  sums  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby,  appro- 
priated out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury,  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  for  the  objects  hereafter  expressed: 

Creek  Indians. — For  perpetual  annuities  for  the  year 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  (under  article  forty- one  of 
treaty  made  with  the  Creeks,  July  tenth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-one,)  twenty-four  thousand  five  hundred  dollars. 

For  interest  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one, 
(under  article  forty-one  of  said  treaty,)  and  arrearages  of 
same  on  the  sum  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  in  the 
Treasury  of  the  United  States,  and  which  should  have  been 
invested  for  educational  purposes,  twenty-nine  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

For  annual  provision  for  education  for  the  year  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one,  (under  article  forty-one  of  said 
treaty,)  seven  thousand  dollars. 

For  annual  provisions,  (under  article  forty-one  of  said 
treaty,)  for  wagon  makers,  smiths  and  smith-shops,  iron  and 
steel,  and  agricultural  purposes,  for  the  year  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one,  and  arrearages  of  same,  eleven  thousand 
four  hundred  and  sixty  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  delegates  who  negotiated  the  treaty, 
(under  article  forty-seven  of  the  same,)  seven  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars. 

For  the  purchase  of  uniform,  sabre,  Maynard  rifle,  and 
ammunition  for  principal  Chief,  (under  secret  article  of  said 
treaty,)  two  hundred  and  forty  dollars. 


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Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  Indians. — For  permanent  an- 
nuities, and  other  amounts,  payments  and  allowances,  due 
July  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  to  the  Choctaws, 
(under  article  fifty-three  of  treaty  made  with  the  Clioetaws 
and  Chickasaws,  July  twelfth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one,)  ten  thousand  five  hundred  and  twenty  dollars. 

For  interest  due  July  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one,  on  the  sum  of  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  (under 
same  article  of  said  treaty.)  held  in  trust  for  the  Choctaws 
by  the  United  S  ates,  under  treaty  of  June  twenty-second, 
eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-five,  twenty-five  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

For  amount  of  advance  agreed  to  be  made  to  the  Choc- 
taws. (under  article  sixty-one  of  said  treaty.)  fifty  thousand 
dollars. 

For  permanent  annuity,  (under  article  fifty-six  of  said 
treaty.)  payable  to  the  Chickasaws,  and  interest  on  the  in- 
vestments and  funds  of  the  Chickasaws  in  the  Treasury  i^\' 
the  United  States,  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one,  twenty-five  thousand  six  hundred  and  six  dollars  and 
eighty-nine  cents. 

For  advance  agreed  to  be  made  t  >  the  Chickasaws,  (under 
article  sixty-one  of  said  treaty,)  two  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  delegates, 
who  negotiated  the  treaty,  (under  article  sixty-three  of  the 
same.)  two  thousand  dollars. 

Seminole  Indians. — For  arrearages  due  December  thir- 
tieth, eighteen  hundred  and  sixty,  of  annual  provision  for 
the  support  of  schools,  (under  article  thirty-eight  of  treaty 
made  with  the  Seminoles,  August  first,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-one,)  thirteen  thousand  dollars. 

For  arrearages  due  December  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty,  of  annual  provision  for  agricultural  assistance, 
(under  article  thirty-eight  of  said  treaty,)  two  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

For  arrearages  due  December  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty,  for  the  support  of  smiths  and  smith-shops,  (un- 
der article  thirty-eight  of  said  treaty,)  two  thousand,  two 
hundred   dollars. 

For    permanent    annuity,    payable     December    thirtieth, 


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eighteen  hundred  and   sixty-one,  (under  article  thirty-eight 
of  said  treaty,)  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 

For  annual  provision  for  the  support  of  schools,  payable 
December  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  (under 
same  article  of  said  treaty,)  three  thousand  dollars. 

For  annual  provision  for  smiths  and  smith-shops,  payable 
December  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred   and  sixty-one,  (un- 
der same  article  of  said  treaty,)  two  thousand,  two  hundred 
dollars. 

For  annual  provision  for  agricultural  assistance,  payable 
December  thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  (under 
same  article  of  said  treaty,)  two  thousand  dollars. 

For  amount  to  be  expended  in  the  erection  of  school- 
houses,  (under  same  article  of  said  treaty,)  one  thousand 
dollars. 

For  amount  to  be  paid  to  the  heirs  of  Sally  Factor,  de- 
ceased, (under  article  forty  of  said  treaty,)  for  negroes  killed 
in  Florida,  five  thousand  dollars. 

For  amount  to  be  paid  to  John  Jumper,  principal  Chief, 
(under  article  forty-one  of  said  treaty,)  for  himself,  five 
hundred  dollars,  and  for  other  delegates  to  Florida,  four 
thousand,  six  hundred  and  fifty  dollars — five  thousand,  one 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Commissioners  who  negotiated 
the  treaty,  (under  article  forty-two  of  same,)  five  hundred 
dollars. 

Cherokee  Indians. — For  interest  for  the  year  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one,  payable  January  first,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two,  (under  article  forty-five  of  treaty  made 
with  the  Cherokees,  October  seventh,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-one.)  and  arrearages  of  same  on  permanent  general 
fund  of  the  Cherokees,  as  invested  by  the  United  States, 
forty-three  thousand,  three  hundred  and  seventy-two  dollars 
and  thirty-six  cents. 

For  interest  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one, 
payable  January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  (un- 
der article  forty-five  of  said  treaty,)  and  arrearages  of  same 
on  permanent  orphans'  fund  of  the  Cherokees,  as,  in  part, 
invested,  and,  in  part,  uninvested,  by  the  United  States, 
four  thousand,  five  hundred  dollars. 


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For  interest  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  ami  sixty-one, 
payable  .Ian nary  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two.  (un- 
der same  article  of  said  treaty.)  and  arrearages  of  same  on 
permanent  school  fund  of  the  Cherokees,  as  invested  by  the 
United  States,  seventeen  thousand,  seven  hundred  and 
seventy-two  dollars. 

For  advance  agreed  to  be  made  to  the  Cherokees.  on  ac- 
count of  their  lands  between  the  States  of  Missouri  and 
Kansas,  (under  article  forty-eight  of  said  treaty,)  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

For  moneys  due  the  Cherokee  Nation,  under  the  treaty  of 
eighteen  hundred  and  forty-six,  as  ascertained  by  article 
forty-nine  of  said  treatv  of  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one, 
twelve  thousand  dollars. 

For  nomeys  due  the  treaty  party  of  the  Cherokee  Nation, 
or  their  legal  representatives,  provided  for  by  tin1  sixth  arti- 
cle of  the  treaty  of  eighteen  hundred  and  forty-six.  as  as- 
certained by  article  forty-nine  of  the  said  treaty  of  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one,  ten  thousand,  three  hundred  dollars. 

Osagf.  Indians. — For  two  smiths  and  two  assistants,  (un- 
der article  twenty-three  of  treaty  made  with  the  Osages, 
October  second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one.)  for  three 
months  ending  February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two.  at  seventeen  hundred  and  ten  dollars  per  annum. 
four  hundred  and  twenty-seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

For  houses,  shops  and  tools  for  same,  (under  article 
twenty-three  of  said  treaty.)  fifteen  hundred  dollars. 

For  seven  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  of  iron,  and  eighty- 
five  pounds  steel,  and  coal,  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty  two.  (under  article  twenty-three  of  said  treaty.) 
one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  the  hire  of  one  wagon-maker,  for  three  months  end- 
ing February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
(under  article  twenty-three  of  said  treaty,)  at  six  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  house  and  shop  for  same,  (under  article  twenty-three 
of  said  treaty,)  five  hundred  dollars. 

For  purchase  of  medicines,  (under  article  twenty-four  of 
said  treaty,)  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 


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For  salary  of  physician  for  three  months,  ending  February 
eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  at  seven  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars,  (under  article  twenty-four  of  said 
treaty,)  one  hundred  and  eighty-seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

For  purchase  of  guns  and  ammunition,  to  be  distributed 
to  the  Osagcs,  (under  article  thirty-five  of  said  treaty,) 
twenty-five  hundred  dollars. 

For  annual  addition  to  school  fund  for  the  Osages,  paya- 
ble January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  (under 
article  forty  of  said  treaty,)  five  thousand  dollars. 

For  annual  purchase  of  clothing  and  other  articles,  to  be 
distributed  to  the  Osages  during  the  year  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two,  (under  article  thirty  nine  of  said  treaty,)  ten 
thousand  dollars. 

For  annual  interest  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-one,  on  former  school  fund,  payable  January  first, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  (under  article  forty  of  said 
treaty.)  one  thousand,  nine  hundred  and  three  dollars  and 
forty-four  cents. 

Quapaw  Indians,  etc — For  the  purchase  of  guns  and  am- 
munition, to  be  distributed  to  the  Quapaws,  (under  article 
thirty  of  treaty  made  with  the  Quapaws,  October  fourth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,)  one  thousand  dollars. 

For  the  purchase  of  medicines  for  the  Quapaws,  Seneeas, 
Seneeas  and  Shawnees,  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two.  (under  article  thirty-one  of  said  treaty,)  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  physician  for  the  Quapaws,  Seneeas, 
Seneeas  and  Shawnees,  (under  article  thirty-one  of  said 
treaty,)  for  three  months,  ending  February  eighteenth,  eigh- 
teen hundred  and  sixty-two,  at  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dol- 
lars per  annum,  one  hundred  and  eighty-seven  dollars  and 
fifty  cents. 

For  annual  provision  for  the  purchase  of  clothing  and 
other  articles  for  the  Quapaws,  for  the  year  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two,  (under  article  thirty-two  of  said  treaty,) 
two  thousand  dollars. 

For  hire  of  one  smith  and  one  assistant,  (under  article 
thirty-three  of  said  treaty.)  for  three  months,  ending  Feb- 
ruary eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  at  eight 
hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  annum,  two  hundred  and  twelve 
dollars  and  fifty  cents. 


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For  house,  shop  and  tools  for  smith,  (under  article  thirty- 
three  of  said  treaty.)  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  hire  of  one  wagon-maker  for  Quapaws,  (under  article 
thirty-four  of  said  treaty.)  for  three  months, ending  February 
eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two.  at  six  hundred 
dollars  per  annum,  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  house,  shop,  tools  and  materials  for  same,  (under 
article  thirty-four  of  said  treaty.)  seven  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars. 

For  purchase  of  four  wagons,  four  sets  of  harness  for 
each,  ten  yoke  of  oxen,  and  ten  sets  of  horse  gear  complete, 
(under  article  thirty-six  of  said  treaty,)  one  thousand  dol- 
lars. 

For  annual  provision  for  purposes  of  education  for  Qua- 
paws.  due  January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
(under  article  thirty-seven  of  said  treaty,)  twenty-five  hun- 
dred dollars. 

For  annual  salaries  of  first  and  second  Chiefs  of  Quapaws, 
due  January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  (under 
article  thirty-eight  of  said  treaty.)  two  hundred  dollars. 

Seneca  and  Shawnee  Indians. — For  annual  interest  due 
January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  to  the  Seneca 
tribe,  on  moneys  due  by  the  United  States,  (under  article 
thirty  of  treaty  made  with  the  Senccas,  &c,  October  fourth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one.)  twelve  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars. 

For  annual  interest  due  January  first,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two,  to  the  Senccas  and  Shawnees,  on  moneys 
due  by  the  United  States,  (under  article  thirty  of  said  trea- 
ty,) one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-two  dollars  and 
ninety-six  cents. 

For  interest  due  the  Seneca  tribe,  and  the  Cayugas  among 
the  Senecas  and  Shawnees,  on  moneys  due  them  by  the  State 
of  New  York,  to  wit:  one  thousand,  one  hundred  and  forty- 
six  dollars,  due  July  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one 
and  one  thousand,  one  hundred  and  fifty-six  dollars,  due 
January  first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  (under  arti- 
cle thirty-one  of  said  treaty,)  two  thousand,  two  hundred  and 
ninety-two  dollars. 

For  the  erection  of  two  school-houses  for  the  Senecas,  and 
the  Senecas  and  Shawnees,  (under  article  thirty-three  of 
said  treaty,)  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 


For  annual  amount  to  be  expended,  for  the  purchase  of 
clothing  and  other  articles,  for  Senecas,  and  Senecas  and 
Shawnees,  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
(under  article  thirty-two  of  said  treaty,)  two  thousand  four 
hundred  dollars. 

For  salary  of  male  and  female  teachers,  and  purchase  of 
stationery  and  books  for  Senecas,  and  Senecas  and  Shaw- 
nees,  for  three  months,  ending  February  eighteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two,  at  two  thousand  dollars  per  annum, 
(under  article  thirty-three  of  said  treaty,)  five  hundred  dol- 
lars. 

For  hire  of  two  smiths  and  two  assistants,  for  three 
months,  ending  February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two,  at  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  ten  dollars, 
(under  article  thirty-six  of  said  treaty,)  four  hundred  and 
twenty-seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

For  purchase  of  coal,  twelve  hundred  pounds  of  iron,  and 
two  hundred  pounds  of  steel,  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-two,  (under  article  thirty-six  of  said  treaty,)  two 
hundred  dollars 

For  hire  of  two  wagon-makers  for  Senecas,  and  Senecas 
and  Shawnees,  for  three  months,  ending  February  eighteenth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  at  one  thousand,  two  hun- 
dred dollars,  (under  article  thirty-seven  of  said  treaty,) 
three  hundred  dollars. 

For  houses,  shops,  tools,  and  materials,  (under  article 
thirty-seven,)  one  thousand  dollars. 

For  the  purchase  of  guns  and  ammunition,  (under  article 
thirty-nine  of  said  treaty,)  to  be  distributed  to  the  Senecas, 
and  Senecas  and  Shawnees,  one  thousand,  two  hundred  dol- 
lars. 

For  medicines  for  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one,  (under  article  thirty-five  of  said  treaty,)  two  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars. 

Reserve  Indians. — For  four  hundred  and  one  thousand 
five  hundred  rations  of  provisions — the  same  being  daily 
rations  to  two  thousand,  two  hundred  Indians,  at  sixteen 
cents  per  ration — furnished  and  to  be  furnished  the  Wichita, 
and  other  Reserve  Indians,  by  Charles  B.  Johnson,  contrac- 
tor, from  August  sixteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one, 
to  February  fifteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  (un- 


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der  article  fourth  of  treaty  made  with  Reserve  Indians,  Au- 
gust twelfth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one.)  sixty-four 
thousand,  two  hundred  and  forty  dollars. 

For  purchase  of  oxen,  wagons,  plows,  and  other  imple- 
ments, (under  article  fourteen  of  said  treaty,)  ten  thousand 
dollars. 

For  present  purchase  of  cows,  calves,  and  other  stock 
animals,  to  be  distributed  from  time  to  time  by  agent,  (un- 
der article  fourteen  of  said  treaty.)  three   thousand  dollars. 

For  hire  of  smith,  assistant  and  .wagon-maker,  for  three 
months,  ending  February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two,  at  seventeen  hundred  and  ten  dollars  per  annum, 
(under  article  sixteen  of  said  treaty,)  four  hundred  and. 
twenty-seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

For  shops  for  smith  and  wagon-maker,  iron,  steel,  tools 
and  materials,  (under  article  sixteen  of  said  treaty,)  one 
thousand  dollars. 

For  purchase  of  medicines  for  the  year  eighteen  hundrel 
and  sixty-two,  (under  article  sixteen  of  said  treaty,)  four 
hundred  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  physician  of  Reserve  Indians,  for 
three  months,  ending  February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two.  at  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per 
annum,  (under  article  sixteen  of  said  treaty,)  one  hundred 
and  eighty-seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

For  pay  of  ten  farmers,  for  three  months,  ending   Febru- 
ary  eighteenth,   eighteen    hundred    and    sixty-two,    at    five 
hundred  dollars   per  annum,  each,  (under  article   sixteen  of' 
said  treaty.)  one  thousand,  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  hire  of  twenty  laborers,  f<  r  three  months,  ending 
February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  at 
fifteen  dollars  per  month,  each,  (under  article  seventeen  of 
said  treaty.)  nine  hundred  dollars. 

For  subsistence  of  ten  farmers  and  twenty  laborers,  for 
three  months,  ending  February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-two,  (under  articles  sixteen  and  seventeen  of 
said  treaty,)  one  thousand  dollars. 

For  purchase  of  materials,  &C,  for  the  erection  of  houses 
for  farmers,  interpreters  and  Indians,  (under  article  seven- 
teen of  said  treaty.)  five  hundred  dollars. 

Camanche    Indians. — For  three  hundred  and  twenty-one 
thousand  rations  of  provisions — the  same  being  daily  rations. 
3. 


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to  three  thousand  Indians,  at  sixteen  cents  per  ration — fur- 
nished, and  to  be  furnished,  the  Camanches,  by  Charles  B. 
Johnson,  contractor,  from  November  first,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-one,  to  February  fifteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two,  (under  article  fifteen  of  treaty  madewith  the  Ca- 
manches, August  twelfth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty -two,) 
fifty-one  thousand,  three  hundred  and  sixty  dollars. 

For  purchase  of  oxen,  wagons,  carts,  plows,  and  other 
implements,  to  be  distribute^  to  the  Camanches,  (under  arti- 
cle fifteen  of  said  treaty,)  five  thousand  dollars. 

For  present  purchase  of  cows,  calves,  and  other  stock 
animals,  to  be  distributed  from  time  to  time  by  the  agent, 
(under  article  fifteen  of  said  treaty,)  twenty-five  hundred 
dollars. 

For  hire  of  smith,  striker,  and  wagon-maker,  for  three 
months,  ending  February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-two.  at  seventeen  hundred  and  ten  dollars  per  annum, 
(under  article  seventeen  of  said  treaty,)  four  hundred  and 
twenty-seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents. 

For  shops,  tools,  iron,  steel,  coal  and  materials  for  smith 
and  wagon-maker,  (under  article  seventeen  of  said  treaty,) 
one  thousand  dollars. 

For  purchase  of  medicines  of  Camanches  for  year  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two,  (under  article  seventeen  oT  said 
treaty,)  four  hundred  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  physician  for  three  months,  ending 
February  eighteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  at 
seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  annum,  (under  article 
seventeen  of  said  treaty,)  one  hundred  and  eighty-seven  dol- 
lars and  fifty  cents. 

For  paying  individual  Seminoles  for  horses  stolen  by  Ca- 
manches, (under  article  twenty-three  and  schedule  B,  of 
said  treaty,)  three  thousand,  four  hundred  and  eighty-seven 
dollars. 

For  purchase  of  materials,  &c,  for  the  erection  of  houses 
(under  article  eighteen  of  said  treaty,)  five  hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  sum  of  three 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby, 
appropriated  out  of  any  money  in  the  Treasury,  not  other- 
wise appropriated,  to  provide  for  the  contingencies  of  office, 
office  rent,  &c,  of  the  Superintendency  of  Indian  Affairs, 
and  the  contingent  expenses,  repairs,  &c,  of  the  several  In- 
dian Agencies,  for  nine  months,  ending  February  eighteenth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 


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Sec.  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  of  the  aggregate 

amount  appropriated  by  this  Act.  the  sum  of  two  hundred 
find  sixty-five  thousand,  nine  hundred  and  twenty-seven  dol- 
lars and  twenty-five  cents  ;  being  the  whole  amount  of  ar- 
rearages, annual  payments,  and  interest  due  the  said  several 
Indians  and  Tribes,  and  to  lie  due  by  the  thirtieth  day  of  Decem- 
ber, of  the  present  year,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty- 
one  ;  may  he  paid  in  coin,  if  the  President  shall  so  direct. 
And  the  sum  of  eighty  thousand  dollars  is  hereby  appropriated 
for  the  purchase  of  coin,  if  so  much  be  necessary. 

Sfic.  1.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  appropriations 
hereby  made  may.  at  the  discretion  of  the  President,  be  forth- 
with paid  into  the  hands  of  the  proper  officers  or  agents, of 
the  Government  and  transmitted,  in  order  that  they  may  be 
promptly  paid  over  to  the  said  tribes  of  Indians,  under  the 
said  treaties,  when  the  amendments  made  by  this  Gfovern- 
nteiit  shall  have  been  ratified  as  parts  of  said  several  treaties 
by  the  respective  tribes. 

Approved  December  24,  1861. 


No.  33.5.]  AX  ACT 

Relating  to  the  custody  of  the  returns  and  certificates  of  the 
votes  of  the  Electors  for  President  and  Vice-President. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  returns  of  the  votes  for  President  and  Vice-Presi- 
dent by  the  Electors  of  the  several  States,  shall  be  delivered. 
for  the  time  being,  to  the  Vice-President  of  the  Provisional 
Government  of  the  Confederate  States,  who  shall  deliver  the 
Same  to  the  President  pro  tempore  of  the  Senate  of  the  Con- 
federate States  on  the  eighteenth  day  of  February,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two. 

Approved  December  31,  1861. 


No.  336.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  a  corps  of  Engineers  for  the  Provisional  Army. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Statu  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  ap- 


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point  officers  of  Engineers  in  the  Provisional  Army,  to  a 
number  not  exceeding  fifty,  and  of  rank  not  higher  than  Cap- 
tain, whose  pay  and  emoluments  shall  be  the  same  as  those 
allowed  for  officers  of  a  like  grade  in  the  Permanent  Army 
of  the  Confederacy,  and  whose  appointments  shall  expire  at 
the  end  of  the  pending  war. 

Approved  December  31.  1861. 


No.  337.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  "An  Act  to  authorize  the  President  to  confer  tern- 
porary  rank  and  command  for  service  with  volunteer  troops,, 
on  officers  of  the  Confederate  Army,"  approved  May  twen- 
ty-first, eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Cangress  of  the  Confederate 
States  of  America,  That  the  above  entitled  Act  be  so  amended 
that,  in  addition  to  the  power  therein  granted,  the  President 
of  the  Confederate  States  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to 
confer  temporary  rank  and  command  upon  officers  of  the  Con- 
federate Army  on  duty  in  the  several  Bureaus  of  the  Adju- 
tant and  Inspector  General,  Chief  of  Engineers  and  Chief  of 
Ordnance,  to  cease  at  the  end  of  the  war ;  the  same  to  be  held 
without  prejudice  to  the  positions  in  snid  Army. 

Approved  December  31,  1861. 


No.  338.]  AN  ACT 

To  Provide  for  the  Payment  of  certain  Indian  Troops.. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  proper  Quartermaster  in  the  Military  De- 
partment of  Indian  Territory  be  authorized  to  pay  the  offi- 
cers and  men  of  the  company  of  Creek  Mounted  Volunteers, 
raised  in  the  month  of  August,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one,  by  authority  of  the  Commissioner  of  the  Confederate 
States,  for  local  purposes,  at  the  North  Fork  village,  in  the 
Creek  country;  and  of  the  Cherokee  regiments  of  Colonels 
Stand    Watie    and   John    Drew,  and  of  the    Choctaw   and 


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Chickasaw  regiment  of  Colonel  Douglas  H.  Cooper,  and  of 
the  Creek  regiment  of  Colonel  Daniel  N.  Mcintosh,  and  of 
the  companies  of  Seminoles  raised  by  the  Chief,  by  authority 
of  the  same  Commissioner,  and  of  the  other  troops,  called 
into  the  service  by  Colonel  Douglas  II.  Cooper,  to  aid  in 
suppressing  the  insurrection  of  a  part  of  the  Creeks,  and  of 
any  called  into  service  by  the  Creek  A.gent  for  the  same 
purpose,  by  direction  of  the  Commissioner,  for  the  times 
during  which  all  of  said  troops  were  in  the  service,  after 
being  organized  and  before  being  mustered  into  the  service, 
in  the  same  manner  as  if  they  had  been  mustered  in  at  tin 
respective  times  when  they  were  organized  and  received  bv 
the  Commissioner  or  either  of  said  officers;  which  payments 
shall  be  made  upon  special  pay  rolls  for  that  purpose  :  Pro- 
vided, That  the  allowance  in  lieu  of  clothing  shall  be  paid 
only  to  such  of  said  officers  and  men  as  shall  have  since 
been  or  may  be  mustered  into  the  service,  and  time  none 
shall  be  paid  who  have  deserted  or  disbanded  without  per- 
mission, oi'  have  taken  sides  with  the  insurrectionists  among 
the  Creeks. 

Six.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  accounts  of 
the  acting  Commissaries  and  Quartermasters  of  all  said 
troops  shall  be  settled  and  paid  in  the  same  manner  as  if 
the  troops  with  or  for  which  they  acted  had  been  regularly 
mustered  into  the  service  at  the  time  when  they  were  organ- 
ized and  received;  ami  that  the  debts  incurred  or  moneyi 
advanced  by  them,  be  paid  by  the  Brigade  Quartermaster  of 
the 'Brigade  commanded  by  Brigadier-General  Albert  Pike: 
Provided  further,  That  said  accounts  shall  be  also  approved 
by  the  said  Brigadier-General,  and  that  the  prices  paid  by 
them  be  found  by  him  not  to  have  been  excessive  or  exorbi- 
tant, and  the  debts  to  have  been  contracted  in  good  faith, 
and  the  moneys  actually  advanced. 

Approved  December  31,  1861. 


No.  339.]  AN  ACT 

To  Organize  the  Territory  of  Arizona. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
.'Jo  (./me/.  That  all  that  part  of  the  present  Territory  of  New 


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Mexico,  included  within  the  following  limits,  to  wit :  Be- 
ginning on  the  Colorado  river,  at  the  parallel  of  north  lati- 
tude thirty-four  degrees,  thence  with  said  parallel  to  the 
eastern  boundary  of  New  Mexico  ;  thence  south  with  said 
boundary  until  it  intersects  the  line  of  Texas ;  and  thence 
with  said  line  to  the  Rio  Grande,  and  so  on  to  the  line  of 
Mexico,  on  said  river,  as  fixed  by  the  treaty  of  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  fifty-four;  thence  with  the  boundary  line  estab- 
lished by  said  treaty  between  the  late  United  States  and 
Mexico  to  the  Colorado  river,  thence  up  the  Colorado  to  the 
place  of  beginning,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  created  into 
a  temporary  government,  by  the  name  of  the  Territory  of 
Arizona;  and  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to 
inhibit  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States  from  di- 
viding said  Territory  into  two  or  more  territories,  in  such 
manner  and  at  such  times  as  Congress  shall  deem  oonve- 
venient  and  proper,  or  from  attaching  any  portion  of  said 
Territory  to  any  other  State  or  Territory  of  the  Confederate 
States ;  and  the  institution  of  slavery  in  said  Territory  shall 
receive  all  necessary  protection,  both  from  the  Territorial 
Legislature  and  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States : 
Provided,  also,  That  nothing  in  this  act  contained  shall  be 
construed  to  impair  the  rights  of  persons  or  property  now 
pertaining  to  the  Pimos  and  Maricopas  Indians  on  the  Gila 
river,  or  the  right  or  claim  of  the  Confederate  States  to  the 
remainder  of  the  Territory  of  New  Mexico,  or  to  any  other 
territory  north  of  the  line  of  thirty-four  degrees  north  lati- 
tude. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Executive 
power  and  authority  in  and  over  said  Territory  of  Arizona, 
shall  be  vested  in  a  Governor,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for 
six  years,  and  until  his  successor  shall  be  duly  appointed 
and  qualified,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the  President  of  the 
Confederate  States.  The  Governor  shall  reside  within  said 
Territory,  at  the  seat  of  government,  and  shall  be  com- 
p.iander-in-chief  of  the  militia  thereof:  he  may  grant  par- 
dons and  respites  for  offences  against  the  laws  of  said  Ter- 
ritory, and  reprieves  for  offences  against  the  laws  of  the 
Confederate  States,  until  the  decision  of  the  President  can 
be  made  known  thereon ;  he  shall  commission  all  officers  who 
shall  be  appointed  to  office  under  the  laws  of  said  Territory, 
and  shall  take  care  that  the  laws  be  faithfully  executed. 

Sec.   3.   And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  there  shall  be  a 
Secretary  of  said   Territory,  who   shall   reside    therein,  and 


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hold  his  office  for  six  years,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the 
President  of  the  Confederate  States;  he  shall  record  and 
preserve  all  the  laws  and  proceedings  of  the  Legislature 
hereinafter  constituted,  and  all  the  acts  and  proceedings  of 
the  Governor  in  his  Executive  Department;  he  shall  trans- 
mit one  Copy  of  the  laws  and  journals  of  the  Legislature 
within  thirty  days  after  the  end  of  each  session,  and  one  copy 
of  the  executn  e  proceedings  and  official  correspondence  semi- 
annually, on  the  first  days  of  January  and  July,  in  each 
year,  to  tin-  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  four 
copies  of  the  laws  to  the  Vice-President,  to  he  deposited  in 
the  libraries  of  Congress;  and  in  case  of  the  death,  remo- 
val, resignation,  or  absence  of  the  Governor  from  the  Ter- 
ritory, tin-  Secretary  shall  he.  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized 
and  required  to  execute  and  perform  all  the  powers  and  du- 
ties ol  the  Governor  during  such  vacancy  or  absence,  or 
until  another  Governor  shall  be  duly  appointed  to  fill  such 
vacancy. 

Sec.  I.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Legislative 
power  and  authority  of  said  Territory  shall  be  vested  in  the 
Governoranda  Legislative  Assembly.  The  Legislature  shall 
consisl  of  a  Council  and  House  of  Representatives.  The 
C  Miiicil  shall  consist  of  thirteen  members,  having  the  quali- 
fication of  voters,  as  hereinafter  prescribed,  whose  term  of 
office  shall  continue  two  years.  The  House  of  Representa- 
tives shall,  at  its  first  session,  consist  of  thirteen  members', 
possessing  the  same  qualifications  as  prescribed  for  members 
of  the  Council,  and  whose  term  of  office  shall  continue  one 
year.  The  number  of  Representatives  may  be  increased  by 
the  Legislature,  from  time  to  time,  in  proportion  to  the  in- 
crease of  the  qualified  voters.  Provided,  That  the  whole 
number  shall  never  exceed  thirty-nine.  An  apportionment 
shall  be  made,  as  nearly  equal  as  practicable,  among  the 
several  counties  or  districts,  for  the  election  of  the  Council 
and  RepresentativcSj  giving  to  each  section  of  the  Territory 
representation  in  the  ratio  of  its  qualified  voters,  as  nearly 
as  may  be.  And  the  members  of  the  Council  and  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  shall  reside  in.  and  be  inhabitants 
of,  the  district  or  county,  or  counties  for  which  they  maybe 
elected  respectively.  The  said  apportionment  shall  be  based 
upon  the  census  report  of  New  Mexico  for  the  year  I860, 
made  by  direction  of  the  late  United  States. 

Sec.  5.  And  be  if  further  enacted,  That  the  Governor  shall 
regulate  the  first  election  which  shall  be  held  for  members  of 


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the  Council  and  House  of  Representatives.  The  first  elec- 
tion shall  be  held  at  such  time  and  places,  and  be  conducted 
in  such  manner,  both  as  to  persons  who  shall  superintend 
such  election  and  the  returns  thereof,  as  the  Governor  shall 
appoint  and  direct,  and  he  shall,  at  the  same  time,  declare 
the  number  of  members  of  the  Council  and  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives to  which  each  of  the  counties  or  districts  shall 
be  entitled  under  this  Act.  The  persons  having  the  highest 
number  of  legal  votes  in  each  of  the  election  districts  for 
members  of  the  Council," shall  be  declared  by  him  to  be  duly 
elected  to  the  Council,  and  the  persons  having  the  highest  , 
number  of  legal  votes  for  the  House  of  Representatives,  shall 
be  declared  by  him  to  be  duly  elected  members  of  said 
House ;  and  the  Governor  thereupon  shall  give  to  the  res- 
pective members  of  the  Council  and  the  House,  so  declared, 
certificates  of  election,  under  his  official  signature.  In  any 
case,  where  it  shall  be  declared,  in  the  first  election,  that  the 
people  have  failed  to  elect,  another  election  shall  be  ordered, 
and  if  any  vacancy  occurs  during  the  session  of  the  first 
Legislature,  another  election  shall  likewise  be  ordered  by 
the  Governor,  under  the  same  rules,  to  fill  such  vacancy  ; 
but  the  first  Legislature  shall  provide  by  law  for  all  failures 
to  elect,  or  vacancies  which  may  occur  thereafter.  And  it 
is  hereby  provided  that  no  session  shall  exceed  fifty  clays  ex- 
cept the  first  session,  which  may  continue  seventy  days. 
And  it  is  further  provided  that  all  legislative  proceedings 
shall  be  conducted  in  the  English  language. 

Sec.  6.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  every  free  white 
male  inhabitant  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  }^ears,  who  shall 
be  an  actual  resident  of  said  Territory,  and  shall  possess  the 
qualifications  hereinafter  prescribed  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
vote  at  the  first  election,  and  shall  be  eligible  to  any  office 
in  the  said  Territory;  but  the  qualifications  of  voters  and 
of  holding  office  shall  be  exercised  only  by  citizens  of  the 
Confederate  States  :  And  provided  further,  That  no  officer, 
soldier,  seaman  or  marine,  or  other  person  in  the  army  or 
navy  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  attached  to  troops  in  the 
service  of  the  Confederate  States,  not  being  a  citizen  of  said 
Territory,  shall  be  allowed  to  vote  or  hold  office  in  said  Ter- 
ritory. 

Sec  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  legislative 
power  of  the  Territory  shall  extend  to  all  rightful  subjects 
of  legislation  consistent  with  the  Constitution  of  the  Con- 
federate  States  and  the  provisions  of  this  Act;   but  no  law 


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shall  be  passed  interfering  with  the  primary  disposal  of  the 
soil ;  no  tax  shall  be  imposed  upon  the  property  oi'  the  Con- 
federate States;  nor  shall  the  lands  or  other  property  of 
non-residents  he  taxed  higher  than  the  lands  or  other 
property  of  residents.  Every  bill  which  shall  have  passed 
the  Council  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  said  Ter- 
ritory, shall,  before  it  become  a  law,  be  presented  to  the 
Governor  of  the  Territory;  if  he  approve,  he  shall  Bign  it; 
but  if  not,  he  shall  return  it.  with  his  objections,  to  the 
House  in  which  it  originated,  who  shall  enter  the  objections 
at  large  on  their  journal,  and  proceed  to  reconsider  it.  If 
after  such  consideration,  two-thirds  of  that  House  shall 
agree  to  pass  the  bill,  it  shall  be  sent,  together  with  the  ob- 
jections, to  the  other  1 1  < > usi-.  by  which  it  shall  likewise  be 
considered,  and.  if  approved  by  tWO-thlrds  of  that  House,  it 

shall  become  a  law.  But  in  all  such  cases,  the  votes  of  both 
Houses  shall  be  determined  by  yeas  and  nays,  to  be  entered 
on   the   journal  of  each    House   respectively.     If   any  bill 

shall  not  lie  returned  by  the  Governor  within  si\-  days  (Sun- 
day excepted)  after  it  shall  have  been  presented  to  him,  the 
same  shall  be  a  law  in  like  manner  as  if  he  had  Signed  it, 
unless  the  Legislature,  by  adjournment,  prevent  its  return, 
in  which  ease  i!  shall  not  lie  a,  law:  Provided  always,  That 
the  Governor  shall  not  exercise  the  veto  in  cases  hereinafter 
expressly  reserved  or  denied  by  this  Act  :  Provided  further, 
That  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  may,  at  any 
time,  change,  modify,  or  annul  any  law  that  may  be  passed 
by  the  Legislative  Assembly,  but  no  change  or  annulling  of 
the  same  shall  affect  or  (list nil)  any  rights  acquired  previous 
to  the  making  of  such  change  or  alteration.  And  provided 
further,  That  said  Congress  may.  at  any  time  during  the 
existence  of  said  Territorial  Government,  originate  and  pass 
for  the  people  of  said  Territory  any  law  which  Congress 
may  deem  expedient  or  necessary  and  proper. 

Sec.  8.  Ani  bs  it  further  enacted,  That  all  Territorial  and 
County  officers  not  herein  otherwise  provided  for.  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor,  and  they  shall  hold  their  offices  until 
they  are  idled  by  persons  appointed  or  elected  conformably 
to  such  law  as  the  Legislature  shall  enact  in  relation 
thereto.  The  Governor  shall  lay  off,  for  the  first  election, 
the  election  districts  for  the  members  of  the  Council  and 
House  of  Representatives,  where  deemed  necessary:  Pro- 
vided, alx&ays,  That  after  the  first  Bession,  the  Legislature 
shall  exercise  the  sole  power  of  laying  oft' all  election  districts. 


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Sec.  9.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  no  member  of  the 
Legislature  shall  hold  or  be  appointed  to  any  office  which 
shall  have  been  created,  or  the  salary  or  emoluments  of 
which  shall  have  been  increased  while  he  was  a  member, 
during  the  term  for  which  he  was  elected,  and  for  one  year 
after  the  expiration  of  such  term ;  but  this  restriction  shall 
not  be  applicable  to  members  of  the  first  Legislature ;  and 
no  person  holding  a  commission  or  appointment  in  the  mili- 
tary service  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  a  member  of 
the  Legislature,  or  hold  any  civil  office  under  the  Govern- 
ment of  said  Territory. 

Sec.  10.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Judicial  power 
of  said  Territory  shall  be  vested  in  a  Supreme  Court,  Dis- 
trict Courts,  Probate  Courts,  and  in  Justices  of  the  Peace. 
The  Supreme  Court  shall  consist  of  a  Chief  Justice  and  two 
Associate  Justices,  any  two  of  whom  shall  constitute  a  quo- 
rum, and  who  shall  hold  a  term  at  the  scat  of  government  of 
said  Territory  annually.  They  shall  appoint  a  clerk,  who  shall 
hold  his  office  during  their  pleasure,  and  who  shall  receive 
such  fees  in  all  cases  in  said  Court,  as  the  Clerk  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  Territory  of  New  Mexico  is  now  en- 
titled to  by  lav/ ;  and  they  shall  hold  their  offices  during  the 
period  of  six  years,  and  until  their  successors  are  duly  ap- 
pointed and  qualified.  The  said  Territory  shall  be  divided 
into  three  Judicial  Districts,  and  a  District  Court  shall  be 
held  in  each  of  said  districts  by  one  of  the  Justices  of  the 
Supreme  Court  at  such  times  and  place  as  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  lawr ;  and  the  said  Judges  shall,  after  their  ap- 
pointments, respectively  reside  in  the  districts  which  shall 
be  assigned  them.  The  jurisdiction  of  the  several  courts 
herein  provided  for,  both  appellate  and  original,  and  that  of 
the  Probate  Courts  and  Justices  of  the  Peace,  shall  be  as 
limited  by  law.  Provided,  That  Justices  of  the  Peace  shall 
not  have  jurisdiction  of  any  matter  in  controversy,  when  the 
title  or  boundaries  of  land  may  be  in  dispute,  or  where  the 
debt  or  sum  claimed  shall  exceed  one  hundred  dollars ;  and 
the  said  Supreme  and  District  Courts  respective])''  shall 
possess  chancery  as  well  as  common  law  jurisdiction.  Each 
District  Court,  or  the  Judge  thereof,  shall  appoint  its  clerk, 
who  shall  hold  his  office  at  the  pleasure  of  the  Court  for 
which  he  shall  have  been  appointed,  and  who  shall  also  be 
the  Register  in  Chancery,  and  shall  keep  his  office  at  the 
place  where  the  Court  may  be  held/  Writs  of  error,  bills 
of  exception  and  appeals  shall  be  allowed  in  ell  cases  from 


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the  final  decision  of  said  District  Courts  to  the  Supreme 
Court,  under  such  regulations  as  may  he  prescribed  by  law. 
but  in  no  case  removed  to  the  Supreme  Court  shall  trial  by 
jury  be  allowed  in  said  court.  Writs  of  error  and  appeals 
from  the  final  decision  of  said  Supreme  Court  shall  be  al- 
lowed, and  may  be  taken  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Con- 
federate States  in  the  same  manner  and  under  the  same  re- 
gulations as  from  District  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States, 
when  the  value  of  the  property  or  the  amount  in  contro- 
versy to  be  ascertained  by  the  oath  or  affirmation  of  either 
party  or  other  competent  witness,  shall  exceed  one  thousand 
dollars;  except  only  that  in  all  cases  involving  title  to 
slaves  the  said  writs  of  error  or  appeal*  shall  he  allowed  and 
decided  by  the  said  Supreme  Court  without  regard  to  the 
value  of  the  matter,  property  or  title  in  controversy';  and 
except,  also,  that  a,  Avrit  of  error  or  appeal  shall  also  J)e  al- 
lowed to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Confederate  States 
from  the  decision  of  said  Supreme  Court  created  by  this 
Act,  or  of  any  Judge  thereof,  or  of  the  District  Courts 
created  by  this  Act.  or  of  any  Judge  thereof,  upon  any  writ 
of  habeas  corpus  involving  the  question  of  personal  free- 
dom; and  each  of  the  said  District  Courts  shall  have  and 
exercise  the  same  jurisdiction  in  all  cases  arising  under  the 
Constitution  and  laws  of  the  Confederate  States  as  is  vested 
in  the  Circuit  and  District  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States  ; 
and  the  said  Supreme  and  District  Courts  of  said  Territory 
and  the  respective  Judges  thereof  shall  and  may  grant  writs 
of  habeas  corpus  in  adl  cases  in  which  the  same  are  granted 
by  the  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Confederate 
States  ;  and  the  first  six  days  of  every  term  of  said  Courts 
shall  be  appropriated  to  the  trial  of  causes  arising  under 
the  said  Constitution  and  laws;  and  writs  of  error  and  ap- 
peals in  all  such  cases  shall  be  made  to  the  Supreme  Court 
of  said  Territory  the  same  as  in  other  cases.  The  said 
Clerk  shall  receive  in  all  cases  the  same  fees  which  the 
Clerks  of  the  District  Courts  of  the  present  Territory  of 
New  Mexico  receive  for  similar  services  until  otherwise 
prescribed  by  law.  The  proceedings  in  all  Courts  in  said 
Territory  shall  be  conducted  in  the  English  language.  All 
Probate  Judges  in  the  said  Territory  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  Coventor,  and  all  Justices  of  the  Peace  therein  shall  be 
appointed  by  the  dust  ices  of  the  Supreme  Court. 

Sec.  1 1.  And  be.  it  further  enacted,  that  there  shall  be  ap- 
pointed an  Attorney  for  said   Territory  who   shall    continue 


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in  office  for  six  years,  unless  sooner  removed  by  the  Presi- 
dent, who  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  five  hundred  dol- 
lars, payable  quarterly,  and  the  same  fees  as  the  Attorney 
General  of  the  present  Territory  of  New  Mexico.  There 
shall  also  1)3  a  Marshal  for  the  Territory  appointed,  who 
shall  hold  his  office  for  six  years  unless  sooner  removed  by 
the  President,  who  shall  execute  all  process  issuing  from  the 
said  Courts  when  exercising  their  jurisdiction  as  District 
and  Circuit  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States  ;  he  shall  per- 
form the  duties,  be  subject  to  th'3  same  regulation  and  pen- 
alties, and  be  entitled  to  the  same  fees  as  the  Marshal  for 
the  present  Territory  of  New  Mexico,  and  shall,  in  addition, 
be  paid  two  hundred  dollars  annually,  as  a  compensation  for 
extra  services. 

Sec.  12.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Governor, 
Secretary,  Chief  Justice  and  Associate  Justices,  Attorney 
and  Marshal,  shall  be  nominated,  and  by  and  with  the  advice 
and  consent  of  Congress  or  the  Senate,  appointed  by  the 
President  of  the  Confederate  States.  The  Governor  and 
Secretary  to  be  appointed  as  aforesaid  shall,  before  they  act 
as  such,  respectively,  take  an  oath  or  affirmation  before  a  Dis- 
trict Judge  or  some  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  the  limits  of  said 
Territory  duly  authorized  to  administer  oaths  and  affirma- 
tions, or  before  the  Chief  Justice  or  some  Associate  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Confederate  States,  to  support 
the  Constitution  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  faithfully  to 
discharge  the  duties  of  their  respective  offices ;  which  said 
oaths,  when  so  taken,  shall  be  certified  by  the  person  before 
whom  the  same  shall  have  been  taken,  and  such  certificates 
shall  be  received  and  recorded  by  the  said  Secretary  among 
the  Executive  proceedings  ;  and  the  Chief  Justice  and  As- 
sociate Justices,  and  all  other  civil  officers  in  said  Territory, 
before  they  act  as  such,  shall  take  a  like  oath  or  affirmation 
before  the  said  Governor  or  Secretary,  or  some  Judge  or 
Justice  of  the  Peace  of  the  Territory,  who  may  be  duly 
commissioned  and  qualified,  Avhich  said  oath  or  affirmation 
shall  be  certified  and  transmitted  by  the  person  taking  the 
same  to  the  Secretary,  to  be  by  him  recorded  as  aforesaid; 
and  afterwards,  the  like  oath  or  affirmation  shall  be  taken, 
certified  and  recorded  in  such  manner  and  form  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  law.  The  Governor  shall  receive  an  annual 
salary  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars  as  Governor,  and  five  hun- 
dred-dollars as  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs.  The  salary 
of  th;  Secretary  of  the  Territory  shall  be  the  sum  of  twelve 


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hundred  dollars  per  annum,  payable  quarterly.  The  Chief 
Justice  and  Associate  Justices  shall  each  receive  an  annual 
salary  of  eighteen  hundred  dollars.  All  salaries  shall  be 
paid  quarterly  at  tin- Treasury  of  the  Confederate  States. 
The  members  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  four  dollars  each  per  day  during  their  attendance 
at  the  sessions  thereof,  and  four  dollars  each  for  every  twen- 
ty miles  travel  in  going  to  and  returning  from  the  said 
sions,  estimated  according  to  the  nearest  usually  travelled 
route  There  shall  lie  appropriated  annually  the  sum  of 
one  thousand  dollars,  to  he  expended  by  the  Governor,  to 
defray  the  contingent  expenses  of  the  Territory  ;  there  shall 
also  lie  appropriated  annually  a  sufficient  sum  to  be  expeo  1- 
ed  by  tie-  Secretary  of  the  Territory,  and  upon  an  estimate 
to  be  made  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  Confed- 
erate States,  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the  Legislative  As- 
sembly, the  printing  of  the  laws  and  other  incidental  ex- 
penses j  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Territory  shall  annually 
account  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of  the  <  Jonfederate 
States  for  the  manner  in  which  the  aforesaid  sum  shall  have 
been  expended. 

Sec.  13.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Legislative 
Assembly  of  the  Territory  of  Arizona  shall  hold  its  sessions 
at  La  Mesilla,  which  is  hereby  designated  as  the  seat  of  gov- 
ernment of  the  said  Territory,  until  otherwise  provided  by  law. 

Sec,  14.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  a  Delegate  to  the 
Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  to  serve  during  each  Con- 
gross,  may  be  elected  by  the  voters  qualified  to  elect  mem- 
bers of  the  Legislative  Assembly,  who  shall  be  entitled  to 
such  rights  and  privileges  as  may  be  provided  by  the  Con- 
stitution and  Laws  of  the  Confederate  States.  The  first 
election  shall  be  held  at  such  time  and  places,  and  be  con- 
ducted in  such  manner  as  the  Governor  shall  appoint  and 
direct;  and  at  all  subsequent  elections,  the  time  ami  places, 
and  manner  of  holding  elections  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 
The  person  having  the  greater  number  of  legal  votes  shall 
be  declared  by  the  Governor  to  be  duly  elected,  and  a  cer- 
tificate thereof  shall  be  given  accordingly  ;  and  such  delegate 
shall  receive  mileage  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  per  mile,  and 
eight  dollars  for  each  day's  attendance  at  the  session  of 
Congress. 

Sec.  15.  And  be  it  fur/ Iter  enacted,  That  temporarily,  and 
until  otherwise  provided  by  law,  the  Governor  of  said  Ter- 
ritory- may  define  the  Judicial   Districts  of  said  Territory, 


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and  assign  the  Judges  who  may  be  appointed  for  said  Terri- 
tory, to  the  several  Districts,  and  also  appoint  the  times  and 
places  of  holding  Courts  in  the  several  counties  or  sub-di- 
visions in  each  of  said  Judicial  Districts  by  proclamation  to 
be  issued  by  him  ;  but  the  Legislative  Assembly  at  their  first 
or  any  subsequent  session  may  alter,  modify  or  organize 
such  Judicial  Districts,  and  assign  the  Judges,  and  alter  the 
times  and  places  of  holding  the  Courts  as  to  them  shall  seem 
proper  and  convenient. 

Sec.  16.  Ani  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Constitution 
and  all  LaAvs  of  the  Confederate  States  which  are  not  locally 
inapplicable,  shall  have  the  same  force  and  effect  within  the 
Territory  of  Arizona  as  elsewhere  within  the  Confederate 
States. 

Sec.  17.  And  be  it  farther  enacted,  That  the  provisions  of 
this  Act  be,  and  are  hereby  suspended  until  the  President  of 
the  Confederate  States  shall  issue  his  Proclamation,  declaring 
this  Act  to  be  in  full  force  and  operation,  and  shall  proceed 
to  appoint  the  officers  herein  provided  to  be  appointed  in  and 
for  said  Territory. 

Approved  January  18,  1862. 


No.  340.]  AN  ACT 

To  make  additional  Appropriations  to  defray  the  Expense  of 
the  Public  Printing. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the.  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That,  in  addition  to  the  appropriations  heretofore 
made  by  law,  the  following  sums  be,  and  the  same  are  here- 
by, appropriated  to  pay  the  expense  of  the  Public  Printing 
up  to  the  eighteenth  day  of  February,  Anno  Domini 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  to-wit:  For  the  War  De- 
partment, twenty  thousand  dollars;  for  the  Post-Office  De- 
partment, sixteen  thousand  dollars ;  for  the  Treasury  De- 
partment, five  hundred  dollars  ;  for  the  Department  of  State, 
live  hundred  dollars  ;  making,  in  all,  the  sum  of  thirty-seven 
thousand  dollars,  to  be  paid  out  of  any  money  in  the  Trea- 
sury not  otherwise  appropriated. 

Approved  December  31,  1861. 


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No.  841.]  AN   ACT 

To  establish  ;i  Mail   Route  from  Hicks'  Ford  to  Lawrence- 
ville,  in  Virginia. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact .  That  the  following  ad  'itional  Post  Route  be,  and 
the  same  is  hereby,  established,  namely:  From  Hicks*  Ford, 
in  the  county  of  <  rreensville,  to  Lawrencevilie,  in  the  county 
of  Brunswick,  in  the  State  of  Virginia. 

Sec.  2.  .In/I  he  if  further  enacted,  That  tin-  Postmaster- 
General  be  hereby  authorised  to  make  the  first  contract  for 
carrying  the  mail  over  said  route,  without  the  necessity  of 
advertising  forbids  for  said  contract,  as  required  by  existing 
law. 

Sec.  8.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  pas- 
Sage. 

Approved  January  2,  1862. 


No.  342.]  AN  ACT 

To  reward  the  Loyalty  of  the  Principal  Chief  of  the  Semi- 
nole Nation. 

Skciiox  1.  The  Congress  of  thi  Confederate  States  of  America 

do  enact.  That  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  be 
authorized  to  present  to  1  lemha  Micco,  or  John  Jumper,  a 
commission,  conferring  upon  him  the  honorary  title  of  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  but 
without  creating  or  imposing  the  duties  of  actual  service  Or 
command,  or  pay,  as  a  complimentary  mark  of  honor,  and  a 
token  of  good  will  and  confidence  in  his  friendship,  good 
faith  and  loyalty  to  this  Government,  and  to  procure  and 
present  him  with  a  complete  uniform  of  that  rank  and  grade, 
a  sabre  and  a  Maynard  rifle,  with  a  liberal  supply  of  ammu- 
nition for  the  same.  And  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  is  hereby  appropriated  for  the  purchase  of  the  said 
uniform  and  arms. 

Approved  January  16,  1S62. 


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No.  343.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  Raising  and  Organizing,  in  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri, additional  Troops  for  the  Provisional  Army  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  8 tates  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  President  be,  and  is  hereby,  authorized  to 
nominate,  and  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  Con- 
gress, to  appoint  and  commission  in  the  Provisional  Army  of 
the  Confederate  States,  one  Major-General  and  such  Briga- 
dier-Generals to  the  command  of  troops,  now  and  hereafter 
to  be  raised  and  organized  for  the  Provisional  Army  in  the 
State  of  Missouri,  as  he  may  think  proper. 

Sec.  2.  All  officers  appointed  under  the  provisions  of  this 
Act  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  pay  from  the  date  of  their 
respective  appointments,  and  shall  be  allowed  the  usual  staff 
appropriate  to  their  rank;  and  shall  be  assigned  to  the  duty 
of  raising  and  organizing  Confederate  forces  in  said  State, 
with  the  view  of  putting  them  and  their  respective  com- 
mands in  the  field  at  the  earliest  practicable  period. 

Sec.  3.  This  Act  to  take  effect  from  and  after  its  passage. 

The  foregoing  Act,  presented  to  the  President  on  the  9th 
of  January,  1862,  was  not  approved  by  him.  nor  returned 
to  the  Congress  within  ten  days  (Sundays  excepted)  after 
being  presented  to  him ;  it  therefore  became  a  law  on  the 
22d  January,  1S62. 


No.  344.]  AN  ACT 

Making  Appropriations  for  Certain  Floating  Defences. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Congress  of  th?  Confederate 
States  of  America,  That  the  sum  of  one  million  of  dollars 
be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  appropriated  for  floating  defences 
for  the  Western  Rivers,  to  be  expended,  at  the  discretion  of 
the  President,  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  or  Secretary  of  the 
Navy,  as  he  shall  direct. 

Approved,  January  9,  1862. 


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No.  315.1  RESOLUTIONS 

Of   Thatiks  to   Colonel   Edward  Johnson,  his  Officers  and 
Men  for  Services  in  the  Battle  oL  Alleghany  Mountain. 

First.  Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  That  the  thanks  of  Congress  are  due.  and  are 
herebj  tendered,  to  Colonel  Edward  Johnson,  and  to  the 
officers  and  men  under  his  command,  for  gallant  and  meri- 
torious services  at  the  summit  of  Alleghany  Mountain,  in 
Virginia,  on  the  thirteenth  day  of  December,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one,  when  for  more  than  six  hours,  they, 
with  remarkable  courage  and  constancy,  sustained  an  assault 
made  upon  their  position  by  fourfold  their  number,  and 
finally  drove  the  enemy  in  disorder,  and  with  heavy  loss, 
from  the  field. 

Sf.com>.  That  the  foregoing  resolution  he  communicated 
to  said  command,  by  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  be  made 
known  in  general  orders. 

Approved,  January  10,  186*2. 


No.  346.]  AN  ACT 

Making   Certain  Provisions  in  Regard  to   Indian  Trust 

Funds. 

Section  1 .  The  ( 'ongress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact.  That  all  sums  of  money,  bonds  or  securities  of  any 
kind,  belonging  to  any  Indian  tribe  or  tribes,  with  whom 
treaties  have  been,  or  may  be,  made  by  the  Confederate 
States,  and  of  which  said  sums  of  money,  bonds,  and  other 
securities,  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States  is,  or 
may  hereafter  become,  the  custodian,  as  the  trustee  of  such 
tribe  or  tribes,  shall  be  deposited  in  the  Treasury  of  the 
Confederate  States. 

Sec  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Secretary  of 
War  be,  and  ho  is  hereby,  authorized  to  draw  his  requisition 
for  each  and  all  sums  of  money  deposited  in  the  Treasury, 
as  aforesaid,  in  favor  of  said  Indians,  or  any  of  them,  to 
whom  such  money  may  belong,  or  who  may  be  authorized  to 
receive  it. 

Approved,  January  10,  1862. 
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No.  34?.]  AN  ACT 

Appropriating  Two  Hundred  and  Twenty-Three  Thousand. 
Six  Hundred  and  Seven  Dollars  for  the  Naval  Service. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  sum  of  one  hunched  and  fifteen  thousand,  six  hun- 
dred and  seven  dollars  be,  and  is  hereby,  appropriated  for 
the  pay  of  officers  of  the  Navy,  on  and  otf  duty,  to  the  first 
day  of  April,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two;  and  that  the 
further  sum  of  one  hundred  and  eight  thousand  dollars  be, 
and  is  hereby,  appropriated  for  the  pay  of  warrant  and  petty 
officers,  seamen,  ordinary  seamen,  soldiers  and  boys,  and 
Engineers  Department,  to  the  same  time,  as  per  estimates  of 
the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  of  the  twenty-sixth  December, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

Approved  January  11,  1862. 


No.  348.]  AN  ACT 

Appropriating  Fourteen  Millions  Eight  Hundred  and  Fifty 
Thousand  Dollars  for  the  Military  Service. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  sum  of  fourteen  millions  four  hundred 
thousand  dollars  be,  and  is  hereby,  appropriated  for  the  pay 
of  bounty  and  transportation,  or  commutation  thereof,  for 
one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  men  under  the  Act  providing 
for  re-enlistment  of  twelve  months  men. 

Sec  2.  That  the  sum  of  four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars  be,  and  is  hereby,  appropriated  for  expenses  under 
the  Act  for  recruiting  recently  passed. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  sum  of  eight  hundred  dollars  be,  and  is 
hereby,  appropriated  for  the  salary  of  the  Assistant  Secre- 
tary of  War,  to  the  first  day  of  April,  eighteen  hundred  and 
si  xi  y-two,  as  per  estimates  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  of  the 
twenty-seventh  December,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Approved  January  11,  18G2. 


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No.  350.]  AN  ACT 

Supplementary  to  An  Act  Making  Appropriations  for  Cer- 
tain Floating  Defences,  Approved  January  Ninth,  Eigh- 
teen Hundred  and  Sixty-Two. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact. 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby^  authorized  to  raise 
a  corps  for  the  temporary  and  special  service  on  the  Western 
waters,  to  cause  to  be  enlisted  a  number  of  men  not  exceed- 
ing six  thousand,  and  of  such  commissioned  and  non-com- 
missioned officers,  and  of  such  rank,  either  Naval  or  Mili- 
tary, as  the  President  may  deem  necessary,  who  shall  seve- 
rally receive  such  pay  and  allowances  as  he  may  determine. 

Approved  January  14,  1862. 


No.  352.]  AN  ACT 

To  Authorize  the  Secretary  of  War  to  Audit  and  Settle  the 
Claims  of  Certain  Officers  therein  named. 

The  Ccngress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  Secretary  of  War  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized 
to  audit  and  settle  the  claims  of  all  assistant  Quartermasters 
General.  Commissaries  General  and  Surgeons,  who  discharged 
the  duties  of  said  offices,  from  the  date  of  the  transfer  of 
the  Battalions  or  Regiments  to  which  they  were  attached  to 
the  time  of  the  appointment  of  their  successors  by  the  Con- 
federate Government:  Provided,  Said  officers  held  commis- 
sions from  their  respective  States  and  discharged  the  duties 
of  said  offices  under  said  Commissions,  and  no  other  officers*, 
during  the  time,  were  appointed  or  discharged  the  duties  of 
the  same. 

Approved  January  15,  1SG2. 


No.  353.]  AX  ACT 

To  Make  the  Appointment  of  Assistant  Secretaries  of  State.. 
oi  the  Treasury  and  of  War,  Executive  Appointments. 

Section  1.  Tne  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 

do  enact,   That  hereafter  the  appointment  of  Assistant  Secre- 


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tary  of   State,   Assistant   Secretary  of  the   Treasury,   and 
Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  shall  be  made  by  the  President, 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  Congress. 
Sec.  2.  All  conflicting  laws  are  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  January  16,  1862. 


No.  354.]  AN  ACT 

To  Authorize  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  to  give  a  Bounty 
to  all  Persons  Enlisted  as  Seamen  who  Enlist  for  Three 
Years  or  for  the  War. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  is  hereby  authorized  to  give 
a  bounty  of  fifty  dollars  to  all  persons  enlisted  as  seamen, 
who  shall  enlist  for  three  years  or  for  the  war.  And  the 
provisions  of  this  act  shall,  in  like  manner,  extend  to  all 
seamen  heretofore  enlisted  who  will  extend  the  term  of  their 
enlistment  to  three  years  or  for  the  war,  said  bounty  to  be 
paid  at  the  time  of  said  enlistment. 

Approved  January  16,  1862. 


No.  355.]  AN  ACT 

Supplementary  to  An  Act  Entitled  "  An  Act  to  Authorize 
the  Appointment  of   Additional  Officers  of   the  Navy.' 
Approved  December  Twenty-Fourth,  Eighteen  Hundred 
and  Sixty-One. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  is  authorized  to  appoint  officers  of  the 
regular  Navy,  to  any  higher  grade  under  the  act  above  men- 
tioned, without  prejudice  to  their  position  under  their  original 
appointment. 

Approved  January  16,  1862. 


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No.  356.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act  entitled  "  An  Act  to  raise  an  additional 
Military  Force  to  serve  during  the  War,"  approved  May 
eighth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  and  for  other 
purposes. 

Section  1.  Thr  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  volunteers  offering  their  service  under  an  Act- 
entitled  "  An  Act  to  raise  an  additional  military  force  to 
serve  during  the  war,"  approve  1  May  eighth,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one,  may  he  accepted  by  the  President  singly 
as  well  as  in  companies,  squadrons,  battalions  or  regiments. 

Sec  2.  In  all  appointments  of  officers  raised  under  this 
Act,  the  field  and  company  officers  shall  be  chosen  and  ap- 
pointed in  the  manner  prescribed  by  the  Act  entitled,  "  An 
Act  providing  for  the  granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs  to  pri- 
vates and  non-commissioned  officers  in  the  Provisional  Army, ' 
approved  December  eleventh,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one  ;  and  all  vacancies  occurring  in  the  said  offices  after  the 
first  election  made  under  this  Act,  as  well  as  under  the  Act 
entitled,  "  An  Act  to  raise  an  additional  military  force  to 
serve  during  the  war,""  approved  May  eighth,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one,  shall  be  filled  by  promotion,  according 
to  grade  and  seniority,  as  provided  in  the  said  Act  of  eleventh 
December,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one.  except  in  case 
of  disability  or  other  incompetency :  Provided,  however, 
That  the  President  be  authorized  to  depart  from  the  pre- 
scribed rule  of  promotion  in  favor  of  any  person  specially  dis- 
tinguished by  his  Commanding  General  for  extraordinary 
if  or  some  signal  act  of  military  skill  or  gallantry. 

Sec  3.  Any  vacancies  occurring  in  the  ranks  of  compa- 
mustered  into  the  Confederate  service  for  three  years 
or  for  the  war,  maybe  filled  by  volunteers ;  and  the  com- 
mander of  each  of  said  squadrons,  battalions  or  regiments, 
organized  as  aforesaid,  may  detail  one  commissioned  officer 
and  one  non-commissioned  officer,  and  one  or  more  privates, 
from  each  company  of  his  command,  with  the  approval  of 
the  Brigadier  Gejaeral  of  the  brigade  to  which  said  squad- 
ron, battalion  or  regiment  may  be  attached,  to  recruit  men 
for  said  company..:  so  that  the  same  may  contain  not  more 
than  one  hundred  and  twenty-five,  rank  and  file;  and  the 
men  so  recruited  shall  be  mustered  at  the  time  of  enrolment 


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and  shall  be  entitled  to  transportation  and  subsistence,  or 
commutation  of  subsistence,  till  they  join  their  respective 
companies,  and  to  fifty  dollars  bounty,  to  be  paid  at  the 
time  of  joining  the  same. 

Sec.  4.  The  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized 
to  appoint  and  commission  persons  as  field  officers  or  captains 
to  raise  regiments,  squadrons,battalions  or  companies,  and  the 
individuals  comprising  the  same  shall  be  mustered  at  the 
time  of  enrolment,  and  be  entitled  to  pay,  transportation 
and  subsistence,  from  the  date  of  the  organization  of  com- 
panies ;  but  the  officers  so  appointed  by  the  President  shall 
not  be  entitled  to  any  pay  or  allowance  until  their  respec- 
tive commands  be  fully  organized  and  reported  to  the  Secre- 
tary of  War ;  and  said  appointments  shall  expire  if  the  offi- 
cer appointed  shall  not  within  a  reasonable  time,  not  to  ex- 
ceed two  months  for  a  company  and  four  months  for  for  a 
battalion,  squadron  or  regiment,  report  the  corps  authorized 
to  be  raised  by  him,  organized  and  ready  for  duty:  Provided, 
nevertheless,  That  every  officer  so  commissioned  for  such  pur- 
pose, shall  receive  an  appointment  proportioned  to  the  force 
he  recruits ;  And  provided,  furthermore,  That  no  enlistments 
under  the  commission  of  captains  shall  be  obligatory,  unless 
the  number  be  sufficient  to  constitute  a  company. 

Approved  January  22,  1S62. 


No.  358.]  AN  ACT 

For  the  Relief  of  A.  B.  Noyes,  Collector  of  the  Port  of 
St.  Marks,  Florida. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  A.  B.  Noyes,  Collector  of  the  Port  of  St.  Marks, 
Florida,  be  allowed,  in  the  settlement  of  his  accounts  with 
the  Treasury  Department,  the  sum  of  seven  thousand  eight 
hundred  ami  eighty-four  dollars  and  eighty-one  cents,  for 
and  on  account  of  the  duties  accruing  upon  a  cargo  of  iron, 
entered,  bonded,  and  put  in  warehouse  at  that  Port,  on  the 
second  day  of  October,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty,  by  the 
Pensacola  and  Georgia  Railroad  Company,  and  which  said 
iron  was  delivered  on  the  twenty-fifth  day  of  March,  eighteen 
hundred   and   sixty-one,   by   order  of  the  Governor  of  said 


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State,  to  the  said  Railroad  Company,  -without  the  payment  of 
the  duties  due  thereon  to  the  said  Collector :  Provided, 
always,  That  this  act  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  waive 
any  rights  which  the  Confederate  Spates  may  have  against  the 
State  of  Florida,  for  the  future  payment  of  the  duties  so  due 
upon  the  said  railroad  iron. 

Approved  January  23,  1SG2. 


No.  359.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  Appointment  of   Officers  of  Artillery  in 
the  Provisional  Army  and  in  the  Volunteer  Corps. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  ap- 
point, by  and  with  the  advise  and  consent  of  Congress,  in 
the  Provisional  Army,  and  in  the  Volunteer  Corps,  officers 
of  Artillery,  above  the  rank  of  Captain,  without  refer* 
to  the  number  of  batteries  under  the  actual  command  of  the 
officers  so  appointed,  not  to  exceed  in  number,  however,  one 
Brigadier-General  for  every  eighty  guns,  one  Colonel  for 
forty  guns,  one  Lieutenant-Colonel  for  every  twenty-four 
guns,  and  one  Major  for  every  sixteen  guns. 

Approved  January  22,  1862. 


No.  360.]  *  AN  ACT 

For  the  Relief  of  Dillon  Jordan  and  F.  Glackmyer. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Postmaster-General  cause  the  account  of 
Dillon  Jordan  and  F.  Glackmyer,  for  postal  services  ren- 
dered by  them  respectively,  for  the  Confederate  States,  at 
Montgomery,  Alabama,  and  IVnsacola,  Florida,  between  the 
twenty-ninth  day  of  January  and  the  first  June,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one,  [to  be  audited]  and  that  he  report  to 


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this   Congres  what  sums  will  be  a  just  and  proper  com- 
pensation to  said  parties  respectively  for  said  services. 

Approved  January  23,  1862. 


No.  361.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act,  entitled  "An  Act  to  Collect,  for  Distri- 
bution., the  Money  remaining  in  the  several  Post-Offices 
of  the  Confederate  States,  at  the  time  the  Postal  Service 
was  taken  in  charge  by  said  Government,"  approved  Au- 
gust thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact.  That  the  time  limited  in  said  Acts,  for  presenting 
claims  for  Postal  Service,  be  extended  to  the  first  day  of 
July,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Postmaster-Gene- 
ral be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  to  collect,  either  by 
draft  or  collection  orders,  all  balances  remaining  in  the  hands 
of  Postmasters  within  the  Confederate  States,  and  which 
they  had  not  paid  over  at  the  time  the  Confederate  States 
took  charge  of  the  Postal  Service.  And  the  Postmaster- 
General  is  hereby  authorized  to  pay  over  the  amounts  so 
collected  to  any  person  having  claims  for  Postal  Service 
rendered  since  the  first  day  of  June,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-one:  Provided,  That  an  accurate  account  shall  be  kept 
in  the  office  of  the  Auditor  of  the  Treasury,  for  the  Post- 
Office  Department,  of  all  sums  collected  under  this  Act, 
which  accounts  shall  show  the  amount  of  money  collected, 
the  person  from  whom  collected,  and  the  person  to  whom 
paid. 

Sec  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  whatever  sum  the  Post- 
master-General may  collect  and  pay  over,  under  this  Act, 
for  Postal  Service  rendered  since  the  first  day  of  June, 
eighteen  hundred  and.  sixty-one,  shall  be  reimbursed  out  of 
any  money  in  the  Treasury  to  the  credit  of  the  Post-Office 
Department ;  and  the  sum  so  reimbursed  shall  be  held  as  a 
separate  and  distinct  fund,  subject  to  distribution  under  the 
Act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment. 

Approved  January  23,  1862. 


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No.  362.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  An  Act  Entitled  "  An  Act  to  Establish  a  Patent 
Office,  and  to  Provide  for  the  Granting  and  Issuing  of 
Patents  for  New  and  Useful  Discoveries,  Inventions,  Im- 
provements and  Designs,"  Approved  on  the  twenty-first 
day  of  May,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Section  1.  rEhe  Congress  of the  Confederate  States  of  America 

do  enact.   That   section   forty-nine  of  the   above  recited  Act 
be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  repealed. 

c.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  every  United  States 
patent  that  was  granted  and  issued  to  any  person,  now  a 
citizen  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  avIio  shall  hereafter  be- 
come so  by  the  accession  of  new  States  or  Territories,  may 
be  revived  and  continued  in  full  force  and  effect  for  the  time 
for  which  they  were  originally  issued  yet  unexpired  :  Pro- 
vided. Such  patents  are  recorded  and  a  copy  of  the  drawing 
annexed  thereto  (if  there  be  a  drawing,  and  if  not,  a  speci- 
men of  the  compound  or  other  subject  matter,  as  the  case 
may  be)  and  a  model  also,  if  the  Commissioner  shall  deem 
it  necessary,  in  the  Patent  Office  of  the  Confederate  States. 
within  six  months  after  the  close  of  the  present  war  with 
the  United  States;  otherwise  such  patents  shall  remain  null 
and  void  ;  and  all  persons  claiming  the  benefit  of  this  sec- 
tion shall  pay  to  the  Commissioner  of  Patents,  for  the  use  of 
the  patent  fund,  the  sum  often  dollars,  and  a  recording  fee. 
at  the  rate  of  ten  cents  for  every  hundred  Avoids  in  such 
patent.  That  nothing  contained  in  this  Act,  or  that  to 
which  it  is  an  amendment,  shall  be  construed  to  recognize 
any  renewal  or  extension  of  any  patent  granted  by  the 
United  States  heretofore  made :  Provided,  however.  That  the 
said  patentee  shall  maintain  no  suit  for  a  violation  of  his 
patent,  which  violation  occurred  before  the  filing  of  a  caveat 
and  the  deposit  of  fees  required  for  the  revival  of  said 
patent  in  the  Patent  Office. 

Sec  3.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  every  instrument 
of  writing  conveying  any  interest — whether  it  be  the  whole, 
a  part,  or  to  a  specified  portion  of  territory — in  and  to  a 
United  States  patent — to  any  person  now  a  citizen  of  the 
Confederate  States,  or  who  shall  hereafter  become  so  by  the 
accession  of  new  States  or  Territories,  and  which  was  exe- 
cuted in  good  faith,  prior  to  the  seventeenth  day  of  April, 


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one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-one,  shall  lie  revived 
and  continued  in  full  force  and  effect  for  the  term  for  which 
the  patent,  in  which  an  interest  is  thus  held  by  a  citizen  of 
the  Confederate  States,  was  originally  issued,  yet  unexpired : 
Provided,  Such  instrument  of  writing  shall  be  recorded  in 
the  Patent  Office  of  the  Confederate  States,  within  six  months 
after  the  close  of  the  present  war  with  the  United  States, 
and  the  owner  thereof  shall  deposit  in  the  said  office  a  des- 
criptive draAving  of  such  character  as  the  Commissioner  shall 
direct,  which  shall  represent  the  intention  or  subject  matter 
of  the  patent  to  which  such  instrument  of  writing  relates, 
or  if  the  invention  be  a  composition  of  matter,  then,  in  that 
case,  a  specimen  of  the  compound,  with  a  written  descrip- 
tion of  the  method  of  making  and  using  it,  and  all  persons 
claiming  the  benefit  of  this  section  shall  pay  to  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Patents,  for  the  use  of  the  Patent  fund,  the  sum 
of  ten  dollars,  and  a  recording  fee,  at  the  rate  of  ten  cents 
for  every  hundred  words  in  such  instrument  of  writing : 
Provided,  however,  That  the  Commissioner  of  Patents  shall 
not  admit  to  record  any  such  instrument,  nor  shall  the  same 
be  deemed  valid,  which  has  not  been  recorded  in  the  United 
States  Patent  Office,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  the 
eleventh  section  of  the  Act  of  Congress  of  the  fourth  day  of 
July,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  thirty-six,  unless  the 
assignee  or  owner  of  such  instrument,  or  his  legal  represen- 
tative, shall  make  oath  that  it  was  actually,  and  in  good 
faith,  executed  on  the  day  of  its  date. 

Sec.  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Commissioner  to  endorse  on  each  patent  and  instru- 
ment of  writing,  assigning;  interests  in  the  United  States 
Patents  as  aforesaid,  filed  for  record  under  the  foregoing 
sections,  the  date  of  such  filing,  and  also  a  certificate  under 
the  seal  of  his  office  that  said  patent,  or  instrument  of  wri- 
ting, has  been  recorded,  which  certificate  shall  be  evidence 
of  the  fact  in  any  court  of  justice,  of  the  Confederate  States, 
and  of  the  right  of  the  owner  thereof  to  use  and  enjoy  the 
same,  and  such  patents  and  instruments  of  of  writing,  after 
they  are  recorded  and  certified,  shall  be  returned  to  the 
owners  thereof. 

Sec  5.  And  be.  it  further  enacted,  That  if  any  such  patent, 
or  deed  of  assignment,  as  is  herein  provided  for  be  lost,  or 
cannot  be  procured  from  the  Patent  Office  of  the  United 
States  the  person  entitled  to  the  same,  in  whole  or  in  part, 
or  his  legal  representative,  may  file  for  record,  with  the  Com- 


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missioner,  an  affidavit  made  before  any  justice  of  tlie  peace, 
notary  public,  or  commissioner  of  any  of  the  courts  of  the 
Confederate  States,  setting  forth  a  description  of  the  patent, 
the  date  of  the  issuance,  as  nearly  as  possible,  and  the  subject 
matter  of  the  patent  and  the  claim,  and  if  there  be  an  as- 
signment the  particulars  of  the  same,  which  affidavit  shall 
be  accompanied  by  such  models,  or  descriptive  drawings,  as 
may  be  necessary  to  a  proper  understanding  of  the  inven- 
tion, discovery,  or  design  secured  by  said  patent.  And  said 
affidavit,  -when  recorded  and  certified  as  aforesaid,  shall  have 
the  same  force,  and  effect  as  the  recording  of  the  original 
patent  or  deed  of  assignment  as  hereinbefore  provided  : 
Provided,  That  the  fact  of  the  granting  and  issuance  of  any 
such  patent  or  deed  of  assignment,  so  alleged  to  be  lost  may 
be  controverted  cither  at  law  or  in  equity  by  any  party  in- 
terested :  And  provided  further,  That  any  person  desirous  of 
availing  himself  of  the  benefits  of  this  Act  shall  give  notice 
of  his  intention  by  publication  in  the  newspaper  at  the  seat 
of  Government  of  the  Confederacy,  authorized  by  law  to 
publish  the  laws  of  Congress,  which  notice  shall  lie  publish- 
ed weekly  for  four  weeks  from  the  day  of  application,  and 
shall  specify  the  subject  matter  of  the  patent  and  the  pur- 
pose for  which  the  application  is  to  be  made,  a  copy  of  which 
shall  be  filed  in  the  Patent  Office:  and  for  the  recording  of 
the  affidavit  provided  for  in  this  section,  the  Commissioner 
shall  be  authorized  to  charge  ten  cents  for  every  hundred 
words  therein  contained. 

Sec.  6.  And  be.  it  further  enacted,  That  no  citizen  of  the 
Confederate  States,  nor  alien,  unless  he  be  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States,  shall  be  debarred  from  receiving  a  patent  for 
any  invention  or  discovery,  as  provided  in  the  Act  approved 
on  the  twenty-first  day  of  May,  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-one,  to  which  this  is  additional,  by  reason  of  the 
same  having  been  patented  in  a  foreign  country  more  than 
six  months  prior  to  his  application:  Provided,  That  the 
same  shall  not  have  been  introduced  into  public  ami  com- 
mon use  in  the  Confederate  States  prior  to  the  application 
for  such  patent :  And  provided,  also,  That  in  all  cases  every 
such  patent  shall  be  limited  to  the  term  of  fourteen  years 
from  the  date  or  publication  of  such  foreign  patent. 

Sec.  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  this  Act  shall  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  January  23,  1862. 


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No.  363.]  A  RESOLUTION 

In    reference  to  the  Arms  of  the   Volunteers   for  Twelve 

Months. 

Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
That  the  military  exigencies  of  the  Confederate  States  ren- 
der it  absolutely  necessary  that  the  arms  of  the  volunteers 
now  in  the  service  should  be  kept  within  the  control  of  the 
President  of  the  Confederate  States ;  so  that  whenever  the 
present  volunteers  shall  be  discharged  from  service,  the  arms 
may  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  others. 

Approved  January  22,  1862. 


No.  364.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  the  President  to  call  upon  the  several   States 
for  Troops  to  serve  for  Three  Years  or  During  the  War. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  first  section  of  the  Act  of  March  sixth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  be,  and  is  hereby,  so  modi- 
fied as  to  authorize  the  President  to  call  upon  the  several 
States,  in  his  discretion,  for  any  number  of  troops,  not  ex- 
ceeding, in  the  aggregate,  the  number  heretofore  authorized, 
to  serve  for  the  term  of  three  years  or  during  the  war. 

Sec.  2.  In  making  such  requisitions,  the  President  shall 
take  into  consideration  the  number  of  troops  from  each  State 
already  enlisted  for  the  war  at  the  time  of  the  requisition, 
and  shall,  as  far  as  practicable,  equalize  the  same  amongst 
the  States  according  to  their  respective  white  population. 

Approved  January  23,  1862. 


No.  365.]  AN  ACT 

To  Increase  the  Clerical  Force  of  the   Post-Office  Depart- 
ment. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  there  shall  be  added  to  the  permanent  clerical 


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force  of  the  Fost-Office  Department  five  clerks,  each  of  whom 
shall  receive  a  salary  of  twelve  hundred  dollars  per  year, 
and  five  clerks,  at  a  salary  of  one  thousand  dollars  each  per 
year. 

Sec.  2.  That  fifteen  additional  clerks  may  he  appointed, 
in  the  office  of  the  Auditor  of  the  Treasury,  for  the  Post- 
Office  Department,  five  of  whom  shall  receive  a  salary  of 
twelve  hundred  dollars  each  per  year,  and  ten  shall  receive 
a  salary  of  one  thousand  dollars  per  annum  each;  and  it 
may  be  lawful  for  the  Auditor  of  the  Treasury  for  the  Post- 
Office  Department  to  appoint  one  of  the  clerks  in  said  office 
to  sign  said  Auditor's  name,  so  as  to  frank  mail  matter  au- 
thorized by  law  to*be  franked  by  said  Auditor;  and  said 
clerk  shall  be  subject  to  all  the  pains  and  penalties  for  vio- 
lating the  franking  privilege  now  provided  by  law  with  re- 
spect to  other  officers  entitled  to  such  privilege. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Postmaster-Gene- 
ral be.  and  lie  is  hereby,  authorized  to  appoint  one  additional 
messenger  for  the  Post-Office  Department,  at  a  compensa- 
tion not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  and  two 
additional  laborers,  at  a  compensation  not  exceeding  one 
dollar  and  a  half  per  day. 

Approved  January  23,  1862. 


No.  367.]  AN  ACT 

To  Appropriate  Eight  Hundred  and  Fifty  Thousand  Dollars 
to  Pay  for  Ordnance,  Ordnance  Stores  and  Equipments. 

The  Congress  of  Vie  Confederate  Steitcs  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  sum  of  eight  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars 
he,  and  is  hereby,  appropriated  for  the  payment  of  Ordnance, 
Ordnance  Stores  and  equipments,  including  outstanding  bills, 
and  to  meet  expenditures  to  the  first  of  April  next  for  the 
defences  of  the  Mississippi  River;  to  be  expended  under 
the  direction  of  the  Navy  Department,  according  to  the  es- 
timate of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  of  the  twelfth  Decem- 
ber, eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Approved  January  27,  1SG2. 


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No.  368.]  AN  ACT 

To  Establish  an  Assay  Office  at  New  Orleans. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  President  is  authorized  to  appoint  an 
assayer  at  NeAV  Orleans,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  assay  and 
certify  the  fineness  and  value  of  such  gold  and  silver  as  may 
be  submitted  to  him  to  be  assayed. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  assayer  shall  execute  a  bond  to  the  Con- 
federate States,  with  sufficient  sureties,  in  such  sum  as  shall 
be  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  to  discharge 
the  duties  of  his  office,  and  shall  take  oath  faithfully  to  dis- 
charge the  same,  and  to  support  the  Constitution  of  the 
Confederate  States ;  thereupon  the  Secretary  of  the  Trea- 
sury shall  place  in  his  charge  and  subject  to  his  use,  so  much 
of  the  Mint  Edifice  at  New  Orleans,  and  of  the  tools  and 
implements  therein,  as  the  said  Secretary  shall  deem  proper 
for  the  said  office ;  subject,  however,  to  be  returned  when- 
ever it  may  be  deemed  expedient  for  the  general  purposes  of 
the  Mint. 

Sec  3.  The  whole  expense  of  the  assaying  establishment 
shall  be  defrayed  by  the  assayer  ;  and  in  order  to  defray  the 
same  and  to  receive  a  reasonable  compensation  for  his  ser- 
vices, he  shall  be  entitled  to  retain  from  all  metals  or  ores 
submitted  to  him  for  assay,  such  seignorage  or  charge  as 
will  enable  him  to  receive  an  annual  salary  not  exceeding 
three  thousand  dollars. 

Sec  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  assayer  to  keep  in 
good  order  the  rooms  or  buildings,  tools  and  other  property, 
and  to  restore  the  same  to  the  Confederate  States  in  like 
condition ;  he  shall  hold  his  office  for  two  years,  and  may 
employ  under  him,  at  such  rates  as  he  may  agree  upon,  such 
workmen  and  inferior  officers  as  he  may  see  fit. 

Sec  o.  The  said  assayer  shall,  from  time  to  time,  as  he 
may  be  required  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  make  an 
accurate  report  of  all  proceedings  at  his  office  in  such  form 
as  may  be  required  by  the  said  Secretary ;  and  he  and  his 
officers  and  subordinates  shall,  at  all  times,  be  subject  to 
such  orders  and  regulations  as  said  Secretary  may,  from 
to  time,  make  or  direct. 

Approved  January  27,  1862. 


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No.  369.]  AN  ACT 

To  Authorize  the  Change  of  the   Names  of  Vessels   in  cer- 
tain cases. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  it  shall  he  lawful  for  the  purchaser  of  any 
vessel,  sold  under  a  decree  of  Court  as  Prize  of  War,  to 
alter  the  name  thereof,  and  to  fcfestow  on  the  same  such 
name  as  he  may  deem  proper;  which  change  of  name  shall 
be  duly  certified,  on  the  papers  and  titles  of  such  vessel,  by 
the  Collector  of  the  Port  where  such  sale  was  made. 

Approved  January  27,  1862. 


No.  370.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  recruiting  companies   now  in   the  service  of 
the  Confederate  States  for  twelve  months. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  thz  Con fcdei'ate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  all  companies  of  volunteers,  now  in  the  service 
of  the  Confederate  States  under  enlistment  for  the  term  of 
twelve  months,  may  be  recruited  by  enlisting,  or  receiving 
volunteers  for  three  years  or  the  war,  to  a  number  not  to 
exceed  one  hundred  and  twenty-five,  rank  and  file,  and  com- 
panies so  recruited  shall,  at  the  expiration  of  the  term  of 
service  of  the  original  company  elect  their  commissioned 
officers;  and  vacancies  thereafter  occurring  in  the  commis- 
sioned offices  of  such  companies,  shall  be  filled  by  promo- 
tion of  said  commissioned  officers,  except  that  vacancies  in 
the  lowest  grade  of  such  offices,  shall  be   filled  by   election. 

Sec.  2.  The  Colonel  or  commanding  officer  of  the  several 
regiments,  battalions  and  squadrons  enlisted  for  twelve 
months  as  aforesaid,  may  detail  one  commissioned  officer  and 
not  exceeding  two  privates  of  each  company,  to  recruit  for 
their  respective  companies,  and  the  officers  and  privates  so 
detailed,  shall  be  entitled  to  transportation  while  so  engaged, 
and  the  recruits  so  enlisted  shall  be  entitled  to  pay,  transpor- 
tation and  subsistence  from  the  time  and  place  of  enlistment, 
together  with  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars,  as  a  bounty,  upon 
joining  their  respective  companies. 


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Sec.  3.  The  original  volunteers,  in  such  companies,  re- 
enlisting,  according  to  the  terms  of  the  Act  entitled  "An  Act 
providing  for  the  granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs  to  pri- 
vates and  non-commissioned  officers  in  the  Provisional  Army, 
may  re-enlist  in,  and  form  part  of  the  companies  to  be  re- 
cruited as  herein  provided;  and  when  all  the  companies 
composing  the  regiment,  battalion,  or  squadron  as  aforesaid, 
shall  by  recruiting  as  aforesaid,  or  by  re-enlistment  and  re- 
cruiting, as  aforesaid,  have  attained  at  the  date  of  the  expira- 
tion of  the  term  of  service  of  the  original  companies,  the  num- 
ber required  by  law  for  a  company,  the  number  and  designation 
of  such  regiment,  battalion,  or  squadron,  may  continue,  or 
such  of  said  companies  as  are  complete  at  that  date,  may  reor- 
ganize into  new  regiments,  battalions,  or  squadrons,  or  at- 
tach themselves  to  other  regiments,  battalions  or  squadrons; 
and  in  all  such  cases  the  field  officers  shall  be  elected,  and 
vacancies  thereafter  occurring  in  such  field  offices  shall  be 
filled  by  promotion,  as  directed  by  the  act  aforesaid. 

Sec.  4.  Companies  organized  by  re-enlisted  twelve  months 
volunteers,  under  the  act  aforesaid,  may  be  recruited  to  the 
number  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five,  in  the  manner  pres- 
cribed in  the  second  section  of  this  act. 

Sec  5.  Where,  at  the  date  of  the  expiration  of  the  term 
of  service  of  the  original  company,  the  number  of  recruits 
and  enlisted  men  may  not  amount  to  the  minimum  number 
required  for  a  company,  the  recruited  men  may  combine 
with  recruits  of  other  companies  in  like  situation,  so  as  to 
form  complete  companies ;  and  in  default  of  such  combina- 
tions, the  said  recruits  may  be  assigned  or  distributed  to  other 
companies,  from  the  State  in  which  such  recruits  were  enlisted. 

Sec  6.  The  Secretary  of  War  shall  make  all  needful  rules, 
to  carry  into  effect  the  foregoing  provisions. 

Approved  January  27,  1862. 


No.  371.]  AN  ACT 

For  the  Relief  of  the  State  of  Missouri. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  di- 
rected to  issue  to  the  State  of  Missouri,  upon  the  application 


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of  the  Fund  Commissioners  for  said  State,  one  million  dol- 
lars in  Treasury  notes  upon  the  condition  that  the  said  State 
of  Missouri  deposit  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  of 
the  Confederate  States  an  equal  sum  in  the  bonds  of  the 
Slate  of  Missouri,  authorized  to  be  issued  under  an  act  of 
the  Legislature  of  said  State,  entitled  "  An  Act  to  provide  for 
the  defence  of  said  Jitatc.  and  for  other  purposes,"  which  bonds 
shall  be  held  by  tmr  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  until  the 
accounts  of  the  State  of  Missouri  for  advances  made  for 
military  purposes  are  adjusted  as  Congress  may  direct. 

Six.  2.  That  upon  the  final  adjustment  of  the  accounts  of 
the  State  of  Missouri  against  the  Confederate  States,  the 
sum  hereby  advanced  shall  be  deducted  from  the  amountfound 
due  to  said  State. 

Sec  3.  The  sum  hereby  appropriated  shall  be  applied  by 
the  State  of  Missouri  to  the  payment  of  troops  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  said  State  prior  to  their  muster  into  the  Confede- 
rate service. 

Approved  January  27,  1862, 


No.  372.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act  supplemental  to  an  Act  to  establish  the 
Judicial  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
approved  May  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  first  section  of  the  above  entitled  Act  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby,  repealed ;  and  to  the  end  that  the 
causes  mentioned  in  said  first  section  of  the  Act  to  which 
this  Act  is  an  amendment,  may  be  brought  to  trial  without 
unnecessary  expense  and  delay,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the 
Judges  of  the  several  District  Courts  to  interchange  with 
each  other  temporarily,  and  the  Judge,  whose  interest  in,  or 
connection  with,  the  causes  aforesaid,  pending  in  the  Dis- 
trict Court  in  which  he  presides,  renders  him  incompetent  to 
try  such  causes,  shall  request  such  interchange  with  the 
Judge  of  an  adjoining  District,  and  the  Judge  so  requi 
shall,  without  delay,  enter  upon  such  interchange;  and  the 
acts  and  decisions  of  Judges  so  presiding  by  interchange 
with  each  other  shall  be  as  valid  as  if  done  and  performed  in 
the  Districts  for  which  they  were  severally  appointed. 
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Sec.  2.  The  Judges  so  presiding  by  interchange,  as  afore- 
said, shall  cause  it  to  be  entered  on  the  records  of  the  Courts 
in  which  they  so  preside,  that  such  interchange  has  been 
made  according  to  this  Act. 

Approved  January  29,  1862. 


No.  373.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  an  Act,  entitled  "An  Act  to  Provide  for  the  Pub- 
lic Defence,"  approved  March  sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-one. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
d)  enact,  That  the  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the 
Public  Defence,"  approved  sixth  March,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-one,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  so  amended  that 
the  provisions  of  the  second  section  of  said  Act,  limiting 
the  term  for  which  the  militia  may  be  called  into  service,  to 
a  period  not  exceeding  six  months,  shall  not  apply  to  men 
drafted  into  service  by  the  several  States,  and  furnished  by 
said  States  to  the  President,  for  service  for  three  years  or 
during  the  war,  in  response  to  requisitions  made  upon  said 
States  according  to  law. 

Approved  January  29,  1862. 


No.  374.]  AN  ACT 

To  Aid  the  State  of  Kentucky,  and  for  Other  Purposes. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  S  tates  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  di- 
rected to  issue  to  the  State  of  Kentucky,  upon  the  applica- 
tion of  the  Governor  and  Council  of  the  Provisional  Gov- 
ernment of  said  State,  the  sum  of  two  millions  of  dollars  in 
Treasury  notes,  to  be  expended  by  said  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil in  raising  and  organizing,  for  the  Confederate  service, 
troops  in  said  State,  supplying  the  same  with  clothing,  sub- 
sistence, transportation,  arms  and  ammunition. 


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Sec.  2.  The  sum  appropriated  by  the  first  section  of  this 
Act  is  to  be  drawn  from  the  Treasury  of  the  Confederate 
States,  by  the  Governor  of  Kentucky,  with  the  approval  of 
the  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  from  time  to  time, 
and  iii  such  sums  as  the  Governor  of  Kentucky  may  need  to 
carry  out  the  objects  of  this  appropriation,  the  Governor 
filing,  before  making  his  requisitions  upon  the  Treasury, 
with  the  Seer  -timates   showing  the  purposes 

and  objects  to  which  said   sums  of  money  are  to  be  applied.. 

Approved  January  29,  1862. 


No.  375.]  AN  ACT 

To  explain  An  Act  entitled  "  An  Act  to  amend  An  Act  en- 
titled -An  Act  to  establish  a  Patent  Office,  and  to  provide 
for  the  granting  and  issue  of  Patents  for  new  and  useful 
discoveries,  inventions,  improvements  and  designs,"  ap- 
proved May  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
one. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  Act  passed  by  the  Congress,  entitled  "An  Act  to 
amend  an  Act,  entitled  An  Act  to  establish  a  Patent  Office, 
and  to  provide  for  the  granting  and  issue  of  Patents,  for  new 
and  useful  discoveries,  inventions,  improvements  and  de- 
signs," approved  May  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-one,  be  construed  and  understood  as  if  the  words  "be 
deposited"  occurred  in  the  eig]  teenth  line  of  the  enrolled 
act,  the  title  whereof  is4  given  and  set  forth  fully  in  this  act; 
the  said  words  "be  deposited"  to  be  placed  and  read  next, 
after  the  word  "necessary"  in  said  line. 

Approved  February  3,   1S02. 


No.  376.]  AN  ACT' 

To  transfer  funds  from  the  Quartermasters  to  the  Ordnance 
Department. 

The  Congress  of  the  Con  [(derate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  three  millions  of  dollars  of  the  sum  heretofore  appro- 


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priated  to  the  service  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department 
and  yet  unemployed  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  transferred 
and  appropriated  to  the  service  of  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment. 

Approved  January  30,  1862. 


No.  378.]  AN  ACT 

Supplemental  to  An  Act  entitled  "  An  Act  providing  for  the 
granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs  to  privates  and  non- 
commissioned officers  in  the  Provisional  Army." 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Staffs  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  provisions  of  the  above  entitled  act,  so  far  as  the 
same  are  applicable  to  re-enlistment  of  twelve  months  vol- 
unteers, be,  and  the  same  are  hereby,  extended  to  troops  now 
in  the  service  of  any  State  for  a  term  not  less  than  three 
months,  who  may  re-enlist  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate 
States,  according  to  provisions  of  said  act,  for  a  term  which 
added  to  their  present  term  of  service  may  amount  to  three 
years. 

Approved  February  3,  1862. 


No.  379.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  certain  financial  arrangements  at  the  Treasury. 

Whereas,  by  the  act  entitled  "  an  act  supplementary  to 
an  act  to  authorize  the  issue  of  Treasury  Notes,  and  to  pro- 
vide a  War  Tax  for  their  redemption,"  Approved  December 
twenty-fourth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  Treasury 
Notes  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  thirty  millions  of  dollars 
were  authorized  to  be  converted  into  Bonds  bearing  interest 
at  the  rate  of  six  per  cent,  per  annum,  which  bonds  should, 
at  the  option  of  the  holders  be  re-convertible  into  Treasury 
Notes ;  but  no  appropriation  of  Treasury  Notes  to  be  ex- 
changed for  said  bonds,  was  made.  Now  the  Congress  of 
the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  any  Treasury 
Notes  in  the  Treasury,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  are  hereby 


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appropriated  and  may  be  applied  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  to  the  redemption  of  said  Bonds.  And  be  it  fur- 
ther enacted,  That  for  the  purpose  of  providing  such  coin  as 
may  be  required  for  the  use  of  the  Government,  the  sum  of 
two  millions  of  dollars  is  hereby  appropriated,  to  be  drawn 
and  applied  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  from  time  to 
time,  as  the  public  exigencies  may  require. 

Approved  February  3,  1S62. 


No.  380.]  AN  ACT 

Making  appropriations  for  the  payment  of  certain  interest 
due,  severally,  to  the  Banks  at  Memphis,  on  advances 
made  by  them  to  Major-General  Leonidas  Polk,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  public  service. 

Whereas,    it   appears    from  the   communication   of   the 
President   of   the   Confederate   States  of    America,   of   the 

eleventh  of  January,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two.  that 
the  following  sums  are  respectively  due  to  certain  Banks  in 
the  city  of  Memphis,  Tennessee,  for  interest  due  on  certain 
moiuip*  by  them  advanced  to  Major-General  Leonidas  Tolk, 
for  the  interest  of  the  public  service,  viz  :  Bank  of  West 
Tennessee,  two  thousand,  seven  hundred  and  sixty  dollars 
and  ninety-four  cents  ;  Bank  of  Memphis,  one  thousand  fifty 
dollars;  Branch  of  Union  Bank,  one  thousand,  three  hundred 
dollars  and  sixty-six  cents  ;  Branch  of  State  Bank,  six  hun- 
dred and  sixty-four  dollars  ;  and  Planters  Bank,  six  hundred 
and  ninety  dollars  and  eighty-three  cents,  amounting  in  the 
aggregate  to  the  sum  of  six  thousand  four  hundred  and 
sixty-six  and  forty-three  one  hundredths  dollars,  the  account 
of  which,  as  being  due  to  said  Banks,  respectively,  as  above 
set  forth,  is  approved  by  Major-General  Leonidas  Polk,  and 
its  payment  recommended  by  himself  and  the  Secretary  of 
War:  Then  fore  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America  elo  enact,  That  there  be  appropriated  out  of  any 
money  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  the 
year  ending  on  the  eighteenth  day  of  February,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two,  the  sum  of  six  thousand,  four  hun- 
dred and  sixty-six  and  forty-three  one  hundredths  dollars  ; 
which  said  sum  shall  be  distributed  by  the  Secretary  of  the 


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Treasury  amongst  said  several  Banks,  respectively,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  amounts  so  shown  to  be  due  to  them  by  the 
foregoing  statement. 

Approved  February  3,  1862. 


No.  381.]  A  RESOLUTION 

Supplemental  to  the  resolution  entitled  "  A  Resolution  ap- 
pointing John  D.  Morris,  of  Kentucky,  a  receiver  under 
the  Act  of  Sequestration,"  approved  August  thirtieth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  and  -which  was  approved 
by  the  President  on  the  sixteenth  of  December,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  resolve, 
That  in  all  cases  in  any  Court  of  the  Confederate  States  in- 
stituted by  authority  of  the  above  mentioned  Resolution, 
whenever  it  shall  appear  to  the  Court  that  the  documentary 
evidence,  or  witnesses,  necessary  to  establish  the  facts  al- 
leged in  the  Petition,  and  authorize  the  judgment  of  the 
Court,  are  situated  within  the  territorial  limits  occupied  by 
the  public  enemy,  the  Court  may,  in  its  discretion,  admit  on 
the  hearing  the  following  articles  of  documentary  'and  testi- 
monial proof:  First,  a  copy  of  any  report  or  enunciation  of 
the  Bank  that  it  had  loaned  or  extended  pecuniary  aid  to  the 
United  States  or  the  Government  of  Kentucky,  waging  war 
against  the  Confederate  States  ;  and  such  report  or  enun- 
ciation may  be  read  from  what  shall  appear  to  be  a  copy,  or 
statement  of  its  substance  in  the  journals  or  Session  acts  of 
the  Legislature  of  Kentucky,  or  from  any  periodical  journal 
of  the  State  published  within  the  dominions  of  the  enemy, 
or  testimonial  proof  of  the  substance  of  the  contents  of 
such  documents.  Second,  Testimonial  proof  in  parol,  in 
letters  or  any  other  form  of  paper  writing,  of  the  admission 
of  the  President  or  Cashiers  of  the  Bank,  that  such  loan  or 
pecuniae  aid  had  been  made  or  afforded  to  the  enemy. 
Third,  Circumstantial  evidence  of  facts  from  which  the  facts 
necessary  to  make  out  the  case  are  fairly  inferable.  But 
in  every  case  the  offer  of  such  proof  shall  be   accompanied 


with  the  affidavit  of  the  Receiver  that  he  believes  the  facts 
which  such  evidence  tends  to  prove  are  true. 

Approved  February  3,  1S62. 


No.  382.]  AN  ACT 

Supplementary  to  An  Act  entitled  "  An  Act  to  amend  An 
Act  entitled  An  Act  to  raise  an  additional  force  to  serve 
during  the  war,  and  for  other  purposes,"  approved  May 
eighth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of 'the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  second  section  of  the  above  recited  Act. 
requiring  the  election  of  field  and  company  officers  by  regi- 
ments and  companies,  shall  not  apply  to  companies,  battal- 
ions and  regiments  raised  under  the  fourth  section  of  said 
Act;  but  the  officers  appointed  by  the  President  to  raise  such 
companies,  battalions  and  regiments  shall  be  the  officers  of 
the  same;  and  the  commissions  of  such  officers  granted  by 
the  President,  shall,  when  their  respective  commands  are 
fully  organized,  be  absolute. 

Approved  February  3,  1862. 


No.  383.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  the  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  amend  an  Act  to 
Provide  for  the  Organization  of  the  Navy,  approved 
March  sixteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one."  ap- 
proved May  twentieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one; 
and  an  Act  entitled  "An  Vet  to  authorize  the  President 
to  confer  Temporary  Hank  and  Command  on  Officers  of 
the  Navy  doing  Duty  with  Troops,"  approved  December 
twenty-fourth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  second  section  of  an  Act,  entitled  "An  Act  to 
amend  an  Act  to  provide  for  the  organization  of  the  Navy, 
approved  March  sixteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one," 
approved  May  twentieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one, 
and  the  Act  entitled  "An  Act  to  authorize  the  President  to 


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confer  temporary  rank  and  command  on  officers  of  the  Navy 
doing  duty  with  troops,"  approved  December  twenty-fourth T 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  be  so  amended  as  to  include- 
officers  of  the  Marine  Corps. 

Approved  February  5,  1862. 


No.  384.]  A  RESOLUTION 

In  regard  to  the  Transfer  of  certain  Indian  Trust  Funds  to- 
the  Confederate  States. 

Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
That  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States  hereby 
agrees  to  indemnify  the  several  Staces  of  this  Confederacy, 
against  any  loss  or  liability  incurred  by  them  because  of  the 
payment  or  transfer,  on  the  part  of  the  said  several  States 
to  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States,  of  any  stocks, 
bonds  or  funds,  belonging  to  certain  Indian  Tribes,  or  mem- 
bers thereof,  in  pursuance  of  the  Acts  of  the  Congress  of 
May  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  and  Janu- 
ary tenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two. 

Approved  February  6,  1862. 


No.  385.]  AN  ACT 

To  Provide  for  Connecting  the  Richmond  and  Danville  and 
the  North  Carolina  Railroads,  for  Military  Purposes. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  contract,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  he 
may  think  proper,  with  any  company  or  companies  which 
have  been,  or  may  be,  incorporated  and  organized  for  the 
purpose  of  building  and  working  a  railroad,  or  railroads,  so 
as  to  connect  the  Richmond  an  1  Danville  Railroad  with  the 
North  Carolina  Railroad,  at  such  points  as  he  may  deem 
most  advantageous  to  the  Government,  or  to  adopt  such 
other  course  for  building  or  working,  or  having  the  said 
railroad  built  and  worked,  so  as  to  effect  the  said  connection,. 


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in   the   manner  he  may  think  will  best   promote  the  public 
inter 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  fur  the  r  enacted,  That,  to*  enable  the  Presi- 
dent to  accomplish  the  object  contemplated  by  this  Act,  the 
sum  of  one  million  of  dollars,  in  bonds  <>f  the  Confederate 
States,  arc  Hereby  appropriated,  to  be  issued  and  applied,  by 
the  order  of  the  President,  at  such  times  and  in  such  sums 
as  he  may  deem  proper. 

Approved  February  10,  1863. 


No.  386.]  AN  ACT 

To  Provide  for  the  Compensation  of  Gr.  II.  Oary,  Delegate 

from  Arizona,  for  his  Attendance  at  this  Session  of  Con- 
gress. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  vf  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  G.  II.  Oury  be  entitled  to  ten  cents  a  mile  for 
coming  to  the  City  of  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  returning 
home,  to  be  estimated  by  the  usual  route  of  travel,  and  to 
eight  dollars  a  day  during  this  session  of  Congress,  from 
the  date  of  the  approval  of  an  Act  to  organize  the  Territory 
of  Arizona,  to  be  paid  in  the  same  manner  provided  by  law 
for  the  compensation  of  members  of  Congress. 

[Approved]  February  11,  1862. 


No.  387.  AN  ACT 

To  Organize  the  Clerical  Force  of  the  Treasury  Department. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  vf  America 
do  enact.  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  be,  and  he  is 
hereby,  authorized  to  appoint  in  the  several  Bureaus  of  his 
Department,  the  following  clerks:  In  the  Bureau  of  the 
Secretary,  one  chief  clerk,  four  clerks  and  one  messenger. 
In  the  Bureau  of  the  Comptroller,  one  chief  clerk,  twenty 
clerks  and  one  messenger.  In  the  Bureau  of  the  Treasurer, 
one  chief  clerk,  ten  clerks,  one  messenger  and  one  assistant 
messenger;  and  subordinate  to  the  Treasurer  in  the  issue  of 
Treasury  Notes,  one  principal  clerk,  ten  clerks  for  signing, 
and  ten  clerks  for  numbering,  and  as  many  cutters  and 
trimmers  as  the  public  service  may  require,  not  exceeding 
ten  in  number.     In  the  Bureau  of  the  Register,  one  chief 


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clerk,  eight  clerks  and  one  messenger;  and  subordinate  to 
the  Register  in  the  management  of  the  Produce  Loan,  one 
principal  clerk  an4  two  clerks  ;  and  for  the  issue  of  Bonds 
and  Stock  and  for  signing  Coupons,  one  principal  clerk  and 
five  clerks ;  and  for  the  signing  of  Treasury  Notes  and 
issuing  the'  same,  ten  clerks.  In  the  Bureau  of  the  First 
Auditor,  one  chief  clerk  and  one  principal  clerk,  and  forty- 
five  clerks,  and  one  messenger  and  assistant.  In  the  Bu- 
reau of  the  Second  Auditor,  one  chief  clerk,  forty  clerks 
and  one  messenger.  In  the  Bureau  of  the  War  Tax,  one 
chief  clerk  and  three  clerks. 

Sec.  2.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  employ  any 
clerk  on  trial  before  his  appointment  for  a  term  not  exceed- 
ing two  months  ;  and  any  clerk  shall  be  transferable  from 
any  Bureau  or  duty  to  any  other,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
said  Secretary,  and  they  shall  all  be  subject  to  such  rules 
and  regulations  as  shall  be  established  by  the  Secretary,  or 
by  the  head  of  each  Bureau  respectively. 

Sec.  3.  The  salaries  of  the  said  clerks  shall  be  at  the  fol- 
lowing rates  per  annum,  and  may  be  paid  to  them  monthly, 
or  at  such  other  period  as  may  be  deemed  proper  by  the  Se- 
cretary of  the  Treasury ;  The  chief  clerks  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  ;  the  principal  clerks  fourteen  hundred  dollars  ;  the 
other  clerks  shall  be  divided  into  two  grades,  of  whom  not 
more  than  one  half  shall  receive  salaries  of  twelve  hundred 
dollars  each,  and  the  remainder,  one  thousand  dollars  each. 
The  cutters  and  trimmers,  if  females,  shall  receive  salaries 
at  the  rate  of  six  hundred  dollars  for  the  chief,  and  five  hun- 
dred dollars  for  the  rest ;  and  if  males,  shall  receive  the 
salary  of  the  lower  grade  of  clerks.  The  messengers  shall 
receive  a  salary  not  to  exceed  five  hundred  dollars.  One  of 
the  clerks  may  be  appointed  Disbursing  Clerk,  and  for  his 
services  as  such,  shall  receive  an  additional  salary  of  two 
hundred  dollars. 

Approved  February  13,  1862. 


No.  388.]  AN  ACT 

To  Transfer  the  County  of  Attala,  in  the  State  of  Missis- 
sippi, from  the  Northern  to  the  Southern  Judicial  Dis- 
trict of  the  State  of  Mississippi. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of the  Confederate  S 'tatcs  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  county  of  Attala,  in  the  State  of  Missis- 


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sippi,  shall  hereafter  form  a  part  of  the  Southern  Judicial 
District  of  said  State,  instead  of  the  Northern  District  as 
heretofore,  and  shand  shall  be  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Courts  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  held  within 
and  for  said  Southern  District. 

Approved  February  \3,  1S62. 


No.  389.]  AN  ACT 

To  Pay  Interest   Due  the  Choctaw   Nation  upon   Stocks  of 
the  State  of  Virginia. 

Section  1.  Th   C  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 

do  enact,  That  there  be,  and  is  hereby,  apropriated  for  inter- 
est from  January  the  first,  1861,  to  January  the  first  1862^ 
on  four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  of  the  stocfc  of 
the  State  of  Virginia,  included  in  Choctaw  Greneral  Fund, 
held  in  trust  by  Secretary  of  the  Interior  of  the  United 
States,  which  interest  has  been  transferred  by  said  State  to 
Government  of  the  Confederate  States,  to  be  paid  over  to 
Choctaw  Nation  of  Indians,  or  persons  empowered  by  such 
Nation  to  receive  it.  twenty-seven  thousand  dollars. 

Approved  February  13,  ISO 2. 


No.  390.]  AN  ACT 

To  alter  and  amend  an  Act  entitled  "An  Act  for  th  •  Seques- 
tration of  the  Estates.  Property  and  Effects  of  Alien  Ene- 
mies, and  for  Indemnity  of  citizens  of  the  Confeder- 
ate States,  and  persons  aiding  the  same  in  the  existing 
war  with  the  United  States."  approved  August  thirtieth. 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  all  and  every  the  lands,  tenements  and  here- 
ditaments, goods  and  chattels,  rights  and  credits;  and  every 
right  and  interest  therein  embraced  by  said  Act  of  Seques- 
tration* of  which  this  Act  is  an  alteration  and  amendment, 
shall  be  collected  and  sold,  as  provided  for  in  this  Act.  and  the 


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proceeds  paid  into  the  Treasury  of  the  Confederate  States ; 
but  in  no  case  shall  a  debt,  or  other  chose  in  action,  be  sold. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  money  realized  under 
this  Act,  and  the  Act  to  which  it  is  an  amendment,  shall  be 
applied  to  the  equal  indemnity  of  all  persons,  loyal  citizens 
of  the  Confederate  States,  or  persons  aiding  the  same  in  the 
present  war,  who  have  suffered,  or  may  hereafter  suffer,  loss 
or  damage  by  confiscation,  by  the  Government  of  the  United 
States,  or  by  any  State  Government,  or  pretended  Govern- 
ment, acknowledging  and  aiding  the  Government  of  the 
United  States  in  this  war,  or  by  such  acts  of  the  enemy,  or 
other  causes  incident  to  the  Avar,  as,  by  future  act  of  Con- 
gress, may  be  described  or  defined,  as  affording,  under  the 
circumstances,  proper  cases  for  indemnity.  And  all  money 
realized  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  paid  into  the  Treasury  of  said 
Confederate  States,  as  provided  by  the  Act  to  which  this  is 
an  amendment ;  and  the  faith  of  the  Confederate  States  is 
hereby  pledged  that  the  same  shall  be  refunded,  as  required 
for  the  purposes  aforesaid.  And  the  Secretary  of  the  Trea- 
sury shall  cause  a  separate  account  of  said  money  to  be  kept 
in  well  bound  books  procured  for  that  purpose. 

Sec  3.  Be  it  farther  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
every  person  in  actual  possession  of,  or  having  under  his 
control,  any  money,  property,  effects  or  evidences  of  debt, 
belonging  to  an  alien  enemy,  speedily  to  inform  the  Receiver, 
and  to  render  an  account  thereof,  and  at  once  to  pay  over  to 
the  Receiver  and  to  deliver  to  him  such  property  and  effects, 
and  evidences  of  debt,  and  such  payment  and  delivery  shall 
be  made  Avithout  regard  to  Avhether  any  proceedings  have  or 
have  not  been  instituted  to  sequestrate  the  same.  And  any 
person  who,  after  giving  such  information,  shall  fail  so  to 
pay  over  and  deliver  on  demand,  made  by  the  Receiver,  shall 
stand  in  contempt,  and  the  Receiver  shall  at  once  move  the 
Court  or  Judge  to  proceed  against  such  party  as  in  other 
cases  of  contempt ;  and  the  Court  or  Judge  may  imprison 
the  offender  until  he  shall  fully  comply  with  the  requirements 
of  this  Act.  And  such  payment  or  delivery  shall  fully  ac- 
quit and  discharge  the  party  from  all  and  every  claim  for  or 
on  account  of  such  money,  property,  effects  and  evidences  of 
debt.  And  the  Receiver  shall  give  such  person  a  receipt, 
specifying  the  amount  of  money,  the  property,  effects  and 
evidences  of  debt  paid  and  delivered,  and  the  name  of  the 
alien  enemy  on  account  of  whom  the  same  shall  be  paid  and 
delivered.     Provided,  That  when  the  person  having  the  pos- 


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session  or  control  of  ;my  money  of  an  alien  enemy,  asserts 
a  debt  or  claim,  against  such  alien  enemy  in  his  own  favor, 
he  may  file  it  in  Wilting  in  the  proper  Court,  swearing  that 
he  believes  himself  justly  entitled  to  the  same,  ami  there- 
upon he  shall  not  bo  compelled,  in  the  first  instance,  to  pay 
over  to  the  Receiver  the  amount  thus  propounded  and  claim- 
ed by  liim  ;  but  the  (Joint  shall  then  proceed  to  examine  and 
try  the  validity  of  the  said  debt  or  claim,  and  decree  accord- 
ing to  the  facts  found,  and  the  rights  and  justice  of  the  case. 
And  if  the  Couri  decides  against  the  debt  or  claim,  the  party 
Betting  up  the  same  shall  forthwith  pay  over  the  sum  so  re- 
tained by  him.  And  if  the  Court  shall  decree  in  favor  of 
the  debt  or  claim  thus  propounded,  and  it  exceeds  the  entire 
amount  originally  in  possession  of  such  debtor  or  claimant, 
he  shall  pay  no  costs;  otherwise  he  shall  pay  all  costs  inci- 
dent to  the  proceedinj 

Si  c.  !.  This  Act,  and  the  Act  to  which  it  is  an  amend- 
ment, shall  not  operate  to  avoid  any  payment,  bona  julr 
to  ao  alien  enemy,  or  to  affect  property  of  any  kind, 
bona  fide  and  absolutely  transferred,  or  conveyed,  by  any 
alien  enemy  to  a  faithful  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States, 
prior  to  the  thirtieth  day  of  August,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-one. 

Sf.c  5.  In  cases  of  partnership  property  and  effects,  the 
resident  partner,  or  partners,  shall  be  dealt  with  in  all  res- 
pects as  surviving  partners  in  cases  of  a  dissolution  of  part- 
nership by  the  death  of  one  or  more  of  the  partners,  accord- 
ing to  the  laws  of  the  place  of  the  principal  place  of  busi- 
i  of  the  partnership;  and  the  Receiver  shall  have  the 
same  remedies  against  such  resident  partners  as  the  repre- 
sentatives of  a  deceased  partner  would  he  entitled  to  in  like 
case. 

Sec.  6.  The  following  persons  shall  not  be  taken  to  be 
alien  enemies  under  this  Act,  or  the  Act  to  which  this  is  an 
amendment : 

First.  Persons  who  now  have  bona  Jide  become  permanent 
residents  of  any  State  of  this  Confederacy,  ami  are  actually 
residing  and  domiciled  within  the  same,  yielding  and  acknowl- 
edging allegiance  thereto,  and  who  have  not,  during  the 
present  war.  voluntarily  contributed  to  the  cause  of  the 
enemy. 

Second.  All  persons  born  within  any  State  of  this   Con- % 
federacy,  or   natives   of  a  neutral  country,   who   since  the 
breaking  out  of  the  war,  have  abandoned  their  domicils  and 


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ceased  their  business  in  the  enemy's  country,  and  all  persons 
aforesaid  ay  ho  have  bona  fide  commenced,  or  attempted  to  re- 
move themselves  and  effects  from  the  enemy's  country,  and 
who  have  been,  and  still  are  prevented  from  completing  said 
removal  by  the  force  or  power  of  the  enemy,  or  who  from 
physical  infirmity  are  incapable  of  removing. 

Third.  All  subjects  or  citizens  of  neutral  countries  who 
cannot  be  shown  to  have  voluntarily  contributed  to  the  cause 
of  the  enemy,  and  all  persons  who,  though  citizens  of  the 
enemy's  country,  have  abandoned  that  country  on  account  of 
their  opposition  to  the  war,  or  sympathy  for  the  people  of 
the  Confederate  States. 

Fourth.  All  married  women  natives  of  any  State  of  this 
Confederacy  who,  or  whose  husbands  shall  not  be  shown  to  have 
voluntarily  contributed  to  the  cause  of  the  enemy.  All  per- 
sons non  compos  mentis,  and  all  minors  whose  fathers  or 
mothers,  were,  or  are,  natives  of  this  Confederacy  and  whose 
property  and  persons  are  controlled  by  guardians  resident 
in  the  Confederate  States,  and  who  have  not  voluntarily  con- 
tributed to  the  enemy's  cause;  and  all  minors  under  the  age 
of  sixteen  years,  who  were  born  in  any  State  of  this  Con- 
federacy, or  in  any  State  exempted  from  the  operations  of 
this  Act  while  their  parents  were  domiciled  in  such  State 
and  who  have  not  taken  up  arms  against  the  Confederate 
States. 

Fifth.  Free  persons  of  color,  who,  by  the  laws  of  any 
State  have  been  compelled  to  remove  beyond  the  limits  thereof, 
and  are  by  law  prohibited  from  returning  to  such  State,  and 
who  have  not  in  anywise  aided  the  enemy. 

Sec.  7.  The  next  of  kin  in  the  direct  ascending  and  des- 
cending lines  of  any  alien  enemy,  faithful  citizens  of  any  of 
the  Confederate  States,  or  engaged  in  their  military  or  naval 
service  shall  be  entitled  to  have  decreed  them  (they  paying 
all  costs)  the  property,  effects  and  credits  of  such  alien  ene- 
my as  if  dead,  intestate,  leaving  no  other  heirs  or  distribu- 
tees, chargeable,  however,  in  their  hands,  as  in  case  of 
administration  or  heirship,  with  the  debts  of  such  alien 
enemies  due  to  faithful  citizens,  of  any  Confederate  State. 

Sec  8.  All  sales  of  property  under  this  Act  shall  be 
made  by  the  Receivers  at  public  auction  to  the  highest  bidder 
and  on  such  terms  and  such  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of 
^ale  as  the  Court  may  prescribe,  and  shall  be  duly  reported 
to  the  Court  by  such  Receivers  at  the  term  next  after  such 
sale;  but  no  conveyance  of  title  shall  be  made  to  the  pur- 


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chaser  of  the  property  until  the  confirmation  of  the  sale  by 
the  Court  and  the  payment  of  the  purchase  money  according 
to  the  torms  of  the  sale  ;  and  no  sale  shall  be  valid  until 
reported  to.  and  confirmed  by  the  Court;  nor  shall  any  sale 
be  confirmed  until  the  terms  shall  have  been  complied  with; 
and  the  Court  may  set  aside  such  sale  for  fraud,  want  of  proper 
notice,  or  any  material  irregularity,  or  where  it  shall  appear 
that  the  Receiver  was  the  purchaser  or  interested  in  the 
purchase,  or  for  substantial  inadequacyof  price:  Provided, 
however,  That  sales  of  personalty  may  be  reported  to,  and 
confirmed  by  the  Judge  in  vacation. 

Sec.  9.  The  Court  may.  in  its  discretion,  when  special 
circumstances  exist  which  temporarily  depress  the  value  of 
the  property,  delay  the  order  of  sale,  or  may  direct  the  Re- 
ceiver to  examine  and  report  whether  it  would  be  expedient 
to  make  an  immediate  sale  of  such  property,  and  on  such 
report,  or  other  satisfactory  evidence,  showing  that  a  delay 
in  the  sale  would  tend  to  secure  a  fairer  price,  may  order 
such  sale  to  be  delayed,  and  in  all  such  cases  the  Court  may, 
in  the  case  of  real  estate,  or  of  a  plantation  and  slaves, 
order  the  Receiver  to  base  the  same  on  such  terms  as  the 
Court  may  prescribe. 

Sec.  Ub  In  cases  where  an  alien  enemy  may  have  con- 
tracted in  writing,  before  the  twenty-first  day  of  May,  eigh- 
teen hundred  and  sixty-one,  to  sell  real  estate  to  a  citizen, 
or  citizens,  of  this  Confederacy,  and  to  make  title  upon  pay- 
ment of  the  purchase  money,  the  Court,  in  decreeing 
sequestration  of  the  said  purchase  money,  or  the  residue 
thereof  unpaid,  shall  further  decree  that  the  receiver  of  the 
district,  in  which  said  real  estate  is  situate,  shall,  upon 
payment  of  said  purchase  money,  or  the  residue  thereof,  as 
aforesaid,  make  title  for  such  real  estate  to  the  purchaser  or 
his  assignee. 

Sec  1 1.  The  Court  shall  audit  and  pass  on  the  accounts 
of  the  receiver  as  provided  in  this  Act,  and  the  one  to  which 
this  is  an  amendment:  but  in  lieu  of  the  compensation  and 
allowances  therein  provided  for,  shall  allow  such  compensa- 
tion as  shall  to  it  seem  reasonable  and  just,  following,  in  this 
respect,  so  far  as  may  be  applicable,  the  analogies  furnished 
by  the  laws  of  the  State  in  which  the  Court  is  held,  concern- 
ing compensation  to  executors,  administrators  and  trustees; 
and  the  Court  shall  further  allow  to  the  receiver  all  proper 
expenses  attending  the  execution  of  his  office.  And  all  fees 
and  allowances  passed  by  the  Court  in  favor  of  any  receiver 


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may  be  retained  by  liim  from  any  money  in  his  hands ;  and 
all  fees  and  allowances  to  any  receiver  beyond  the  rate  of 
five  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  except  for  expenses  as 
aforesaid,  shall  be  forthwith  paid  by  him  into  the  Confede- 
rate Treasury,  to  the  use  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 
Bhall  be  brought  into,  and  stated  and  accounted  for,  in  his 
next  account  of  settlement  as  Receiver. 

Sec.  i2.  The  Court  shall  appoint  an  attorney  for  each 
section  in  which  the  ''curt  shall  be  holden,  and  in  which  no 
attorney  of  the  Confederate  States  resides,  whose  duties  it 
shall  be  to  discharge,  within  said  section,  the  duties  imposed 
on  the  attorney  of  the  district  by  the  Act  to  which  this  is 
amendatory;  and  the  compensation  of  such  attorney  so  ap- 
pointed shall  he  the  same  for  business  by  him  done  as  is  now 
provided  by  ninth  section  of  said  Act  for  the  district  attor- 
ney. 

Sec.  13.  The  Receiver  shall,  in  all  cases,  take  the  posses- 
sion and  control  of  the  money,  property  and  effects  of  alien 
enemies,  and  of  such  choses  in  action  as  shall  he  in  the 
hands  of  any  agent  or  third  person,  except  when  otherwise 
provided  by  this  Act,  and,  on  being  refused  possession,  shall 
sue  for  Hie  same,  and  such  possession  shall  not  be  withheld 
on  any  pretext  of  any  provisions  of  the  Act  to  which  this 
is  amendatory.  The  Court  may  order  a  delay  in  the  sale  of 
property  when  it  shall  be  necessary  to  complete  or  gather  a 
growing  crop,  or  when  it  shall  he  otherwise  manifestly  to 
the  benefit  of  the  Confederate  States  to  delay  the  sale;  but 
in  all  such  cases  the  possession,  control  and  management 
shall  be  with  the  Receiver,  or  under  his  control  and  author- 
ity. And  in  the  collection  of  debts  or  choses  in  action,  no 
State  stay  law  shall  govern,  but  the  same  shall  be  governed 
by  this  Act,  and  the  one  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  so 
far  as  the  latter  does  not  conflict  with  this  Act. 

Skc.  14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  owing  debts 
to  alien  enemies,  within  three  months  from  the  passage  of 
this  Act.  to  give  information  there  if  to  the  Receiver  of  the 
district  in  which  he  or  they  reside,  and  in  case  of  corpora- 
tions or  joint  stock  companies,  to  the  Receiver  of  the  dis- 
trict in  which  the  principal  office  of  business  of  such  cor- 
poration or  company  may  be;  and  such  information  shall  be 
in  writing  and  sworn  to  by  the  debtor,  and  in  case  of  cor- 
porations or  joint  stock  companies,  by  the  principal  officer 
of  such  corporation  or  company,  before  any  Judge  of  a 
Court  of  record,  justice  of  the  peace,  notary  public,  com- 


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missioner  of  the  Court  or  Receiver  under  the  Act  to  which 
this  is  an  amendment,  and  shall  set  forth  the  name  or  names 
of  the  creditor  or  owner  of  such  debt,  the  amount  he  owes 
or  owed  on  the  thirtieth  day  of  August,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty  one.  ■  ml  whether  the  Bameis,  or  has  been,  secured 
by  mortgage  or  otherwise  ;  and  the  information  or  confession 
so  made  shall  be  hied  by  the  Receiver  in  the  proper  Court  of 
the  Confederate  States,  and  such  Court  shall,  on  such  infor- 
mation, proceed  to  decree  sequestration  and  payment  of  the 
debt  or  debts  so  confessed;  and  in  case  any  debtor  shall,  in 
good  faith,  confess  his  indebtedness  as  aforesaid,  but  shall  be 
unable  to  state  the  true  amount  of  his  indebtedness,  or  shall 
be  in  doubt  whether  the  creditor  or  owner  of  the  debl  is  an 
alien  enemy,  the  Court  shall  proceed  to  ascertain  the  char- 
acter of  the  creditor  or  owner,  and  the  true  amount  of  such 
indebtedness,  and  to  that  end  shall  direct  such  proceedings 
as  shall  he  adapted  to  the  nature  of  the  case,  and  decree  ac 
cording  to  the  facts  found.  And  in  all  proceedings  against 
persons  for  debts  due  by  them  to  alien  enemies,  the  debtor 
shall  he  allowed  to  make  any  defence,  in  law  or  equity, 
which  he  might  or  could  have  made  in  a  suit  brought  against 
him  by  the  creditor  to  whom  such  debt  was  due  :  Provided, 
hoicevu-.  That  no  execution  shall  issue  on  such  decree,  except 
for  the  interest  which  shall  accrue  on  the  same  at  the  end  of 
each  year,  until  twelve  months  after  peace  shall  he  declared 
between  the  Confederate  States  and  the  United  States,  or 
until  otherwise  directed  by  law:  And  provided,  moreover, 
That,  execution  may  issue  for  the  costs  of  the  proceeding", 
and  the  sum  so  collected  tor  costs  shall  he  deducted  I  pom  th< 
principal  sum  due. 

Sec.  15.  The  Receivers  appointed  under  this  Act,  or  the 
Act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  shall  proceed  diligently 
to  ascertain  and  collect  the  debts  due  to  alien  enemies  by 
persons  residing  in  the  districts  lor  which  they  are  a  sverally 
appointed,  and  shall,  on  the  discovery  of  any  such  debts, 
and  after  the  expiration  of  three  months  from  the  pa 
this  Act.  and  the  debtor  shall  have  failed  to  give  informal 
of  such  debt,  proceed  to  institute  proceedings  to  sequestrate 
the  same,  ami  in  such  proceeding,  which  shall  he  by  petith  n. 
as  prescribed  by  said  .'  ct,  to  which  this  is  an  amendment, 
and  shall  he  to  sequestrate    the    deht.  as  well    us  to  ascertain 

the  sum  due  by  the  debtor,  Buch  debtor  shall  be  male  defen- 
dant or  respondent,  as  the   case    i  D  1    the  p 
bring  such  debtor  before  the  Court,  or  to  compel  an  answer, 
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shall  be  in  the  nature  of  the  writ  of  garnishment  as  pres- 
cribed in  said  Act,  which  shall  be  served  on  such  debtor ; 
and  in  case  of  corporations  and  joint  stock  companies,  en 
some  member  or  officer  of  such  corporation  or  company ; 
and  shall  require  the  defendant  to  answer  on  oath  whether 
he  is  indebted  to  any  alien  enemy,  or  was  so  indebted  on  the 
thirtieth  day  of  August,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  in 
what  sum,  and  whether  he  knows  of  any  other  person  or 
persons  so  indebted,  and,  on  the  disclosure  by  the  defendant 
of  such  indebtedness  by  other  persons,  like  proceedings  shall 
be  had  as  in  the  original  cause ;  and  in  case  the  defendant 
shall  suggest  in  his  answer  that  the  debt  due  by  him  or  her 
is  claimed  or  owned  by  any  person  not  an  alien  enemy,  set- 
ting forth  the  name  of  such  claimant,  his  place  of  abode, 
citation  shall  issue  to  such  claimant  to  appear  and  propound 
his  claim  on  oath  at  the  succeeding  term  of  the  Court ;  and 
in  case  he  is  absent  from  the  district  in  which  the  Court  is 
held,  or  cannot  be  found,  publication  shall  be  made  for  the 
space  of  one  month  in  some  newspaper  best  calculated  to 
apprise  such  claimant  to  appear  and  propound  his  claim ; 
and  if  such  claimant  shall  fail  to  appear,  his  claim  shall  be 
barred.  On  the  appearance  of  the  claimant,  the  Court  shall 
direct  an  issue  to  try  the  same,  and  shall  award  the  costs 
against  the  claimant  if  the  claim  be  unfounded :  Provided, 
That  the  entire  answer  shall  be  considered  by  the  Court. 

Sec.  1C.  All  proceedings  now  pending  under  the  Act  to 
which  this  Act  is  an  amendment,  shall  be  made  to  conform 
to  the  proceedings  directed  in  this  Act,  so  far  as  practica- 
ble, and  the  judgments  rendered  therein  shall  be  given  in 
all  respects,  and  have  the  same  operation  and  effect  as  judg- 
ments rendered  under  the  fourteenth  section  of  this  Act. 

Sec  17.  In  all  proceedings  against  debtors  who  fail  or 
refuse  to  give  information  of  their  indebtedness  within  the 
time  prescribed  in  this  Act,  and  the  debtor  shall  be  brought 
before  the  Court  by  process,  the  costs  of  the  proceeding  shall 
be  adjudged  against  such  debtor,  in  case  he  is  found  to  be 
indebted  to  any  alien  enemy  ;  and  if  it  shall  appear  to  the 
Court,  on  the  trial  of  any  cause  against  such  recusant  debt- 
or, that  he  has  wrongly  and  wilfully  refused  or  failed  to  give 
information  of  his  indebtedness,  or  to  state  the  true  amount 
thereof,  with  intent  to  hinder,  evade  or  delay  the  execution 
of  this  Act,  or  the  Act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  or 
the  jury,  in  any  cause  or  issue  tried  by  them,  shall  certify 
that  such  debtor  has  wilfully  failed  or  refused  to  give  infor- 


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nation  of  his  indebtedness,  or  the  true  amount  thereof,  with 
the  intent  aforesaid,  the  Court  shall  award  execution  as 

such  debtor  on  the  decree  or  judgment  for  the  whole  amount 
of  the  debt  and  the  interest  due  thereon,  together  with  the 
costs  ;  in  all  other  case.-,  however,  execution  shall  be  stayed 
until  the  peace  aforesaid,  except  for  interest  which  shall 
accrue. 

Sec.  18.  Incases  where  proceedings  shall  be  instituted  to 
sequestrate  judgments  or  decrees  already  rendered,  or  of 
claims  or  debts  upon  which  actions  or  suits  may  be  pending 
the  Court  may.  after  the  decree  of  sequestration,  allow  the 
Receiver  to  prosecute  such  suit,  action,  decree  or  judgment, 
in  the  name  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America;  and  in 
-  of  suits  or  actions  pending,  or  decrees  or  judgments 
rendered  in  the  State  Courts,  where,  by  the  laws  of  BU.ch 
State,  it  may  be  admissible,  such  Receiver  may  introduce 
the  Confederate  States  of  America,  in  the  proceedings  as  a 
party  to  prosecute  such  suit  or  action,  or  enforce  such  de- 
cree or  judgment;  but  in  such  cases  execution  shall  ,  - 
for  costs  and  interest  only  until  further  provided  by  law,  or 
twelve  months  after  the  conclusion  of  peace  as  aforesaid. 

Skc  19.  Attorneys,  agents  or  trustees  of  any  alien  enemy 
having  claims  for  fees  or  commission  on  the  fund  or  assets 
in  their  hands,  shall,  on  delivery  of  such  fund  or  assets  to 
the  Receiver,  make  out  their  accounts  for  such  claims  or 
commissions,  and  the  Court  shall  consider  and  allow  the 
same,  if  ju  t  and  reasonable,  to  be  paid  out  of  such  funds  or 
assets  ;  and  where  counsel  are  already  engaged  in  prosecu- 
ting such  pending  suits  or  actions,  the  Receiver  shall  be 
authorized  to  allow  them  to  continue  to  prosecute  such  suits 
or  actions  for  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

Sec  20.  The  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  by  debtors  shall 
be  regulated  by  the  contract,  if  by  the  terms  thereof  the 
rate  of  interest  shall  be  fixed,  and  if  no  interest  shall  be 
fixed  by  the  contract,  then  the  rate  shall  be  according  to 
the  law  of  the  place  where  the  debt  is  to  be  paid  or  the 
contract  performed  ;  and  the  judgment  or  decree  shall  bear 
the  same  rate  of  interest  fixed  by  law  or  the  contract,  and 
the  same  shall  be  punctually  paid  at  the  end  of  each  year, 
or  execution  shall  issue  for  the  same. 

Stic.  21.  In  no  case  shall  the  judgment  or  decree  be 
a  lien  on  the  property  of  the  debtor  ;  but  where  the  Court 
shall  award  execution  under  this  Act,  the  property  of  the 
debtor  shall  be  bound,  from  the  delivery  of  the  writ. 


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Sec.  22.  The  Court,  or  Judge  in  vacation,  shall  have  power 
to  award  execution  on  any  judgment  or  decree,  in  addition  to 
the  cases  of  recusant  debtors,  where  the  Receiver  shall  make 
oath  that  the  debtor  is  fraudulently  concealing  or  disposing  of 
his  effects,  with  intent  to  evade  the  judgment,  or  is  about  to 
remove  his  effects  beyond  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Court,  but 
such  execution  shall  be  discharged  on  the  defendant's  giving 
security  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Court,  for  the  performance 
or  payment  of  the  decree. 

Sec.  23.  In  proceedings  under  this  Act,  and  the  Act  of 
which  it  is  amendatory,  upon  affidavit  being  made  by  the 
Attorney  representing  the  Confederate  States,  or  the  proper 
Receiver,  that  the  name  of  an  alien  enemy  is  wholly  or  partly 
unknown  to  him,  or  that  the  names  of  the  members  of  a 
partnership  of  alien  enemies  are  unknown  to  him,  the  pro- 
cess and  proceedings  may  be  against  such  partnership  by 
the  firm  name  thereof,  stated  in  such  affidavit,  or  against 
such  alien  enemy,  whose  name  is  wholly  or  partly  unknown, 
by  such  name  or  proper  description  as  may  be  known  and 
act  forth  in  such  affidavit :  Provided,  That  the  Court  may,  at 
any  time,  on  motion,  cause  the  full  and  proper  name  to  be 
inserted  in  the  record,  and  used  in  the  proceedings  when  the 
same  become  known  to  the  Court. 

Sec  24.  Receivers  shall  have  authority  to  administer 
oaths  touching  any  matter  incident  to  proceedings  under 
this  Act. 

Sec  25.  The  sixteenth  section  of  the  Act  to  which  this 
is  an  amendment,  is  hereby  repealed. 

Sec  26.  All  debts  due  to  ar.y  alien  enemy  may  be  paid 
in  the  Eonds  and  Treasury  Notes  of  the  Confederate  States, 
and  the  same  shall  be  received  in  payment  for  all  property 
sold  under  this  Act. 

Sec  27.  The  fees  of  all  Clerks  and  Marshals  shall  be  the 
same  for  services  under  this  Act  and  the  Act  to  which  this 
is  an  amendment,  as  are  allowed  for  similar  services  in  the 
Courts  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  shall  be  a  charge  upon 
the  general  fund  derived  from  confiscations,  and  shall  be 
paid  on  the  order  of  the  Court. 

Sec  28.  The  Commissioners  authorized  by  the  fourteenth 
section  of  the  Act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  shall  ap- 
point a  Clerk  with  a  salary  of  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  to  be 
paid  out  of  the  Treasury  of  the  Confederate  States ;  but  such 
salary,  as  well  as  the  salary  of  said  Commissioners,  shall  be 
charged  to  the  confiscation  fund  and  be  deducted  therefrom ; 


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and  said  Commissioners  shall  moreover  have  power  to  ap- 
point Commissioners  to  take  the  examination  of  witnesses 
touching  the  claims  which  may  be  propounded  before  thorn, 
or  may  summon  witnesses  before  them  to  be  examined  oral- 
ly ;  said  Commissioners,  and  the  Commissioners  appointed 
by  them  to  examine  witnesses  as  aforesaid,  shall  have  power 
to  administer  oaths  to  the  witnesses  and  to  issue  subpoenas, 
and  witnesses  failing  to  appear  shall  be  subject  to  like  penal- 
ties and  process  as  may  be  prescribed  in  the  Courts  of  the 
Confederate  States  against  defaulting  witnesses  :  Provided, 
however,  That  the  costs  of  all  proceedings  to  take  testimony 
shall  be  paid  by  the  claimant,  except  in  cases  where  the  At- 
torney General  shall  apply  for  leave  to  take  testimony,  and 
the  fees  of  witnesses  and  Commissioners  shall  be  the  same 
as  are  allowed  in  the  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States  in 
like  cases. 

Sec.  29.  So  much  of  the  Act  to  which  this  is  an  amend- 
ment as  requires  the  Receivers  to  settle  separately  the  es- 
tate of  each  alien  enemy,  is  repealed,  and  hereafter  each  set- 
tlement shall  embrace  all  the  matters  ready  for  settlement ; 
but  the  items  of  the  account  shall  be  so  specific  as  to  show 
the  sources  from  which  each  is  derived. 

Sec.  30.  Where  any  judgment  has  been  entered  up  in  any 
of  the  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States  under  the  Act  to 
which  this  is  an  amendment,  inconsistent  with  the  provisions 
and  spirit  of  this  Act,  the  same,  on  motion,  shall  be  set  aside 
or  amended  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and  provisions  of 
this  Act, 

Sec.  31.  The  provisions  of  the  Act  to  which  this  Act  is  an 
amendment,  so  far  as  the  same  may  conflict  with  this  Act, 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Approved,  February  15,  186 2. 


No.  391.]  AN  ACT 

To  establish  certain  Tost  Routes  therein  named. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  following  Post  Routes  be,  and  they  are 
hereby,  established,  to  wit:  First.  From  Tarborough,  by 
way  of  Bethel  and  Flat  Swamp,  to  Williamston,  in  the  State 


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of  North  Carolina.  Second.  From  Bengal,  in  Bullock  coun- 
ty, by  way  of  William  Deloaches'  Mills,  in  said  county,  and 
Benjamin  Brewton's  Mills,  in  Tatnall  county,  to  Reidsville, 
in  said  last-named  county,  in  the  State  of  Georgia.  Third. 
From  Burnsville,  North  Carolina,  via  Jack's  Creek,  Poplar 
Hollow,  Longmore's,  in  Washington  county,  Tennessee, 
John  Blair's,  to  Jonesborough,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee/ 
Fourth.  From  Laurel  Valley,  in  North  Carolina,  via  Stans- 
bury  Gap,  to  Duck  Town,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee.  Fifth. 
From  Shepherdsville  to  Swansboro',  in  the  county  of  On- 
slow, North  Carolina.  Sixth.  From  Saiidersville  to  Had- 
not's,  in  said  last-named  county  and  State.  Seventh.  From 
Gatesville  to  Mintonsville,  in  Gates  county,  North  Carolina. 
Eighth.  From  Dixie,  otherwise  called  Bu  Bayou,  on  the 
Vicksburg,  Shreveport  and  Texas  railroad,  to  Winnsboro', 
in  the  State  of  Louisiana.  Ninth.  From  Holly's  Wharf,  on 
Chowan  river,  to  Ballard's  Bridge,  in  Chowan  county,  in  the 
State  of  North  Carolina.  Tenth.  From  Mount  Pleasant  to 
Perryville,  on  the  Tennessee  river,  via  Newburg,  Palestine 
and  Linden,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee.  Eleventh.  From 
Louisville,  in  the  county  of  Winston,  via  Ashfordsville,  in 
said  county,  Multona  Springs,  Phcenix  Mills,  Birketsville, 
and  Rocky  Point,  in  the  county  of  Attala,  to  West  Station, 
in  the  county  of  Holmes,  in  the-  State  of  Mississippi. 
Twelfth.  From  Grain's  Creek  to  Carbonton,  via  Cowles' 
Store,  Pocket,  Gillam's  Store,  and  Underwood's  Tall  House, 
in  the  State  of  North  Carolina.  Thirteenth.  From  Vaiden 
to  Sidon,  in  the  county  of  Carroll,  in  the  State  of  Missis- 
sippi. Fourteenth.  From  Raymond,  in  the  county  of  Hinds, 
to  Port  Gibson,  in  the  county  of  Claiborne,  in  said  State  of 
Mississippi.  Fifteenth.  From  DeKalb,  in  the  county  of 
Kemper,  to  Philadelphia,  in  the  county  of  Neshoba,  in  said 
State.  Sixteenth.  From  Concordia,  in  the  county  of  Boli- 
var, to  Williams  Port,  on  the  Sun  Flower  river,  in  said 
State.  Seventeenth.  From  Canton,  in  the  county  of  Madi- 
son, to  Shugnalak,  in  the  county  of  Noxuba,  via  Philadel- 
phia:, in  the  county  of  Neshoba,  in  said  State.  Eighteenth. 
From  Oxford,  in  the  county  of  Lafayette,  to  Fulton,  in  the 
county  of  Itawamba,  in  said  State.  Nineteenth.  From  Bates- 
ville,  in  Panola  county,  to  Byham's-  Creek,  in  said  State. 
Twentieth.  From  Fulton,  in  Itawamba  county,  to  Gunstown, 
on  the  Mobile  and  Ohio  railroad,  in  said  State.  Twenty- 
first.  From  Smithville  to  Richmond,  in  said  State  of  Missis- 
sippi,    Twer ty -second.  From  Moscoav,  on  the  Memphis  and 


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Charleston  railroad,  to  Antona,  on  the  Memphis  ami  Ohio 
railroad,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee,  via  Macon,  Oakland  and 
Hickory  Wythe,  in  said  State.  Twenty-third.  From  Mem- 
phis, vi:i  Ralston,  to  Portersrille,  in  said  State  last  named. 
Twenty -fourth.  From  "Waldo,  on  the  Florida  railroad,  by 
Fort  Crane,  to  My  <  !anopy,  in  th  ;  State  of  Florida.  Twenty- 
fifth.  From  Warsaw  to  Gainsville,  in  the  State  of  Alabama. 
Twenty-sixth.  From  Hicksford  in  the  county  of  Greens- 
ville, to  Lawrencevilje,  in  the  county  of  Brunswick,  in  the 
State  of  Virginia.  Twenty-seventh.  From  Hartsville,  in 
Sumner  county,  via  Driver's  Store,  on  the  cast  fork  of 
Goose  Creek,  and  Cartersville,  to  Lafayette,  in  the  county 
of  Macon,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee.  Twenty-eighth.  From 
Rock  Hill.  York  District,  via  Taylor's  Creek,  Wall  ice,  1-ew- 
isville,  Rich  Hill  Cross  Roads,  Cedar  Shoals.  Landsford,  to 
Coats'  Tavern,  in  the  State  of  South  Carolina.  Twenty- 
ninth.  From  Shelby  Depot,  on  the  Memphis  and  Ohio  rail- 
road, in  the  county  of  Shelby,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee,  to 
the  town  of  Portersville,  in  Tipton  county,  in  said  State. 
Thirtieth.  From  Statesbnrg,  via  Providence,  Harmony  Col- 
.  Bradford  Springs,  to  Mill  Grove,  in  South  Carolina. 
Thirty-first.  From  Wedowee,  Alabama,  to  Corn  Grove,  via 
Abicochee,  in  said  State.  Thirty-second.  From  Akernathy, 
Alabama,  to  Bowdon,  in  the  State  of  Georgia.  Thirty- 
third.  From  Syllacogger,  Alabama,  to  J.  J.  Richards',  in 
Coon  county,  in  said  State.  Thirty -fourth.  From  Copper- 
ville,  Cherokee  county,  North  Carolina,  to  Aquone,  Macon 
county,  North  Carolina. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  392.]  AN  ACT 

For  the  Relief  of  the  State  of  Missouri.. 

Skction  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  hereby  di- 
rected to  issue  to  the  State  of  Missouri,  upon  the  applica- 
tion of  the  Fund  Commissioners  for  said  State,  one  million 
dollars  in  Treasury  notes,  upon  the  condition  that  the  said 
State  of  Missouri  deposit  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasu- 
ry of  the  Confederate  States  an  equal  sum  in  the  bonds  of 


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the  State  of  Missouri,  authorized  to  be  issued  under  an  act 
of  the  Legislature  of  said  State,  entitled  "An  Act  to  provide 
for  the  defence  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  and  for  other  pur- 
poses,*' which  bonds  shall  be  held  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  until  the  accounts  of  the  State  of  Missouri  for 
advances  made  for  military  purposes  are  adjusted,  as  Con- 
gress may  direct. 

Sec.  2.  That  upon  the  final  adjustment  of  the  accounts  of 
the  State  of  Missouri  against  the  Confederate  States,  the 
sum  hereby  advanced  shall  be  deducted  from  the  amount 
found  due  to  said  State. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  393.]  AN  ACT 

Supplemental  to  "An  Act  to  put  in  operation  the  Govern- 
ment under  the  Permanent  Constitution  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  of  America,"  approved  May  21st,  1S61. 

'Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  on  the  assembling  of  the  Senators  elected 
under  the  provisions  of  the  Permanent  Constitution  of  the 
Confederate  States,  according  to  the  directions  contained  in 
the  above  recited  act,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  Provisional  Government  to  call  the  Senate  to 
order,  to  appoint  a  Secretary  of  the  Senate  for  the  time 
being,  administer  the  oath  of  office  to  the  Senators,  and 
preside  over  the  body  until  the  President  of  the  Senate  for 
the  time  being  shall  be  elected,  as  provided  by  the  Act 
aforesaid;  and  in  the  absence  of  the  Vice-President,  the 
oldest  Senator  then  present  shall  perform  the  duties  afore- 
said. And  on  the  assembling  of  the  members  of  the  House 
of  Representatives,  elected  as  aforesaid,  under  the  direction 
of  the  Act  aforesaid,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  of 
the  Congress  of  the  Provisional  Government  to  call  the 
House  to  order,  appoint  a  Clerk  of  the  House  for  the  time 
being,  administer  the  oath  of  office  to  the  members,  and 
preside  over  the  body  until  a  Speaker  shall  be  elected,  and 
in  the  absence  of  the  President  of  Congress,  the  oldest  mem- 
ber of  the  House  then  present  shall  perform  the  duties  afore- 
said. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


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No.  394.]  AN  ACT 

To  make  Appropriations  for  the  Expense-  of  Government  in 
the  Legislative,  Executive  and  Judicial  Departments,  from 
the  eighteenth  of  February  to  the  first  of  April,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  for  other  purposes. 

Section  1.  Th  Congress  of  Vie  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact.  That  the  following  sums  he.  and  the  same  are  here- 
by, appropriated  for  the  objects  hereafter  expressed,  from 
the  eighteenth  of  February  to  the  iirst  of  April,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-two. 

Legislative. — For  compensation  and  mileage  of  Senators, 
four  thousand  live  hundred  dollars. 

For  compensation  and  mileage  of  members  of  the  House 
of  Representatives,  twenty-fiv^  thousanl  dollars. 

Executive. — For  compensation  of  the  President  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  four  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Vice-President  of  the  Confede- 
rate State-,  one  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Private  Secretary  and  Messenger 
of  the  President,  three  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  Assistant 
Secretary  of  State.  Clerks  and  Messengers,  one  thousand 
three  hundred  and  eighty-nine  dollars  and  forty-four  cents. 

For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  As- 
sistant  Secretary,  Comptroller.  Auditors,  Treasurer  and 
Register,  and  Clerks  and  Messenger  in  the  Treasury  De- 
partment, fifteen  thousand  dollars. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Treasury 
Department,  two  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  Chief  of  Bu- 
reau, and  Clerks  and  Messengers  in  the  War  Department, 
four  thousand  dollars. 

For  contingent  ami  incidental  expenses  of  the  War  De- 
partment, ten  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and 
Clerks  and  Messengers  in  his  office,  three  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-five dollars. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Navy  De- 
partment, live  hundred  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Postmaster  General,  Chiefs  of 
Bureaus,  and  Clerks  and  Messengers  in  the  Post  Office  De- 


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partment,  four  thousand  four  hundred  and  twenty-nine  dol- 
lars, thirty-eight  cents. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Post  Office 
Department,  two  thousand  dollars. 

For  compensation  of  the  Attorney-General,  Assistant 
Attorney-General,  Clerks  and  Messenger  in  the  Department 
of  Justice,  one  thousand  three  hundred  and  fifty-six  dollars. 

For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Department 
of  Justice,  five  hundred  dollars. 

For.  salary  of  Superintendent  of  Public  Printing  and 
Clerk  and  Messenger  in  his  office,  six  hundred  dollars. 

For  printing  for  the  several  Executive  Departments  of  the 
Government,  eleven  thousand  seven  hundred  dollars. 

Judiciary. — For  salaries  of  Judges,  Attorneys  and  Mar- 
shals, and  for  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  Courts, 
twenty  thousand  dollars. 

War  Department. — For  the  pay  of  the  Officers  and  Pri- 
vates of  the  Army,  Volunteers  and  Militia,  in  the  service  of 
the  Confederate  States;  for  Quartermasters'  supplies  of  all 
kinds,  transportation  and  other  necessary  expenses,  twenty- 
six  million  two  hundred  and  ninety-one  thousand  five  hun- 
dred and  two  dollars. 

For  purchase  of  subsistence,  stores  and  commissary  prop- 
erty, four  million  five  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

For  the  Ordnance  service  in  all  its  branches,  two  million 
six  hundred  and  sixty  thousand  dollars. 

For  the  Engineer  service,  sixty-five  thousand  dollars. 

For  Surgical  and  Medical  supplies  of  the  Army,  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

For  contingencies  of  the  Army,  sixteen  thousand  dollars. 

For  the  contingent  expenses  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspec- 
tor General's  office,  including  office  furniture,  stationery, 
printed  blanks  for  the  use  of  the  Army,  postage,  telegraphic 
dispatches,  and  so  forth,  three  thousand  three  hundred  dol- 
lars. 

Navy  Department. — For  contingent  enumerated,  ten  thou- 
sand dollars-. 

For  coal  for  steamers,  one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

For  pay  of  officers  and  others  employed  at  the  Navy 
Yard,  at  Norfolk,  Virginia,  fifteen  thousand  dollars. 

For  repairs  of  buildings  adjoining  the  gateway  of  the 
Navy  Yard,  at  Norfolk,  Virginia,  five  thousand  dollars. 

Miscellaneous. — For  compensation  of  three  Commissioners, 
appointed  under  the  fourteenth  section  of  the  Act  of  August 


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thirtieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  providing  for  the 
sequestration  of  the  estates  of  alien  enemies,  and  for  the  in- 
demnity of  citizens  of  the  Confederate  States,  two  thousand 
two  hundred  and  twenty  dollars. 

For  contingent  expenses  of  said  Commissioners,  five  hun- 
dred dollars. 

For  wanes  of  A  .  and   for  printing,  under  the  Act 

of  Congress  of  August  nineteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
sixty-on. -.  providing  for  a  War  Tax.  one  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-five thousand  dollars. 

For    salaries  of  Chief  Collectors  of   War    Tax.   under  the 
.  eleven  thousand  and  thirty-three  dollars. 

For  transmission  of  the  funds  of  the  Confederate  States, 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

For  the  purchase  of  diplomatic  books  for  the  use  of  the 
Department  of  State,  fifteen  hundred  dollars. 

For  the  purchase  of  a  year's  supply  of  sugar  and  mo- 
lasses  for  the  army,  one  million  one  hundred  and  thirteen 
thousand  four  hundred  dollars. 

For  redemption  of  Treasury  Notes  issued  under  the  Act 
of  May  sixteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  and 
burned  or  otherwise  rendered  unfit  for  circulation  by  the 
holders,  thirty  thousand  dollars. 

For  pay  of  warrant  and  petty  officers,  seamen,  ordinary 
seamen,  landsmen  and  boys,  and  the  Engineer's  Department 
of  the  Navy,  as  bounty,  authorized  by  Act  of  Congress, 
approved  January  sixteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 
two,  one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

For  bounty  of  fifty  dollars  to  each  non-commissioned  offi- 
cer, musician  and  private,  who  may  enlist  for  three  years  or 
during  Avar,  on  the  basis  that  one  hundred  thousand  men 
will  enlist,  the  sum  of  five  millions  of  dollars. 

For  the  transportation  of  the  above  men  from  the  place  of 
enlistment  to  the  Army,  in  the  field,  one  million  of  dollars. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  395.]  AN  ACT 

To  authorize  and  provide  for  the  Organization  of  the  Mary- 
land Line. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  all  native  or  adopted  citizens  of  the   State  of 


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Maryland  who  have  heretofore  volunteered,  are  now  in,  or 
may  hereafter  volunteer  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate 
States,  may,  at  their  option  he  organized  and  enrolled  into 
companies,  -squadrons,  battalions  and  regiments,  and  with 
the  First  Maryland  Regiment,  and  several  companies  now 
in  service,  into  one  or  more  brigades,  to  be  known  as  the 
Maryland  Line ;  said  organization  to  be  in  accordance  with 
existing  laws. 

Approved  February  15,  1S62. 


No.  396.]  AN  ACT 

To  Relinquish  any  Claim  on  the  part  of  the  Government  to 
any  Share  in  certain  Prizes. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States  do  hereby 
relinquish  all  claim  to  any  portion  of  the  proceeds  of  the 
sale  of  certain  vessels  and  their  cargoes  captured  in  the 
Chesapeake  Bay  and  the  Potomac  River,  on  or  about  the 
twenty-ninth  day  of  June,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one, 
by  George  M.  Hollins,  Captain  in  the  Confederate  States 
Navy,  and  certain  officers  of  the  Navy,  and  private  citizens 
under  his  command ;  said  prizes  having  been  made  without 
the  participation  of  any  vessel  of  the  Confederate  States  or 
other  Government  aid. 

Approved  Febuary  15,  1862. 


No.  397.]  AN  ACT 

To  Fix  the  Rank  of  certain  Officers. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  rank  of  commissioned  officers  of  regiments,  batta- 
lions, squadrons  and  companies,  who  continue  in  service  by 
re-election  in  regiments,  battalions,  squadrons  or  companies, 
organized  of  troops  re-enlisting  under  the  Act  providing  for 
the  granting  of  bounty  and  furloughs  to  privates  and  non- 


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commissioned  officers  in  the  Provisional  Army,  approved 
December  eleventh,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  and 
the  Act  supplemental  thereto,  approved  February  third, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  or  under  the  Act  to  provide 
for  the  recruiting  companies  now  in  the  service  of  the  Con- 
federate States  for  twelve  months,  approved  January  twenty- 
ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two.  shall  date  from  the 
time  of  their  original  election  or  appointment:  Prodded, 
such  officers  shall  be  re-elected  or  appointed  to  offices  of  the 
same  grade  in  the  same  corps. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  398.]  AN  ACT 

To  establish  Judicial  Courts  in  certain  Indian    Territories. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confedi  rate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  in  order  to  secure  the  due  enforcement  of  so 
much  of  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States  in  regard  to 
criminal  offences  or  misdemeanors,  and  to  civil  remedies,  as 
is,  or  may  be,  in  force  within  the  Indian  country  west  west 
of  Missouri  and  Arkansas,  south  of  Kansas  and  north  of 
Red  River,  the  country  owned  and  occupied  by  the  Cherokee 
Nation,  as  the  boundaries  of  the  same  are  defined  by  treaty 
between  that  nation  and  the  Confederate  States,  is  hereby 
erected  into  and  constituted  a  Judicial  District  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  for  the  special  purposes  and  with  the  juris- 
diction in  this  Act  and  in  existing  laws  and  the  treaty  afore- 
said provided,  to  be  called  and  known  as  the  District  of 
Cha-lah-ki ;  and  the  whole  country  owned  and  occupied  by 
the  Choctaw  and  Chickasaw  Nations,  as  the  boundaries  of 
the  same  are  defined  by  treaty  between  these  nations  and  the 
Confederate  States,  including  the  country  west  of  the  ninety- 
eighth  degree  of  west  longitude,  leased  by  said  nations  to 
the  Confederate  States,  is  hereby  erected  into  and  constituted 
a  Judicial  District  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  the  special 
purposes  and  with  the  jurisdiction  in  this  Act  and  in  exist- 
ing laws,  and  the  treaty  aforesaid  provided,  to  be  called  and 
known  as  the  Tush-ca-hom-ma  District. 

Sec.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  the  country 
owned  and  possessed  by  the  Creek  Nation,  or  Muskoki  Con- 
federation, all  that  country  owned  and  possessed  by  the  Sem- 


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inole  Nation,  all  that  country  occupied  and  held  by  the 
Great  and  Little  Osage  Tribes  of  Indians,  and  all  that  coun- 
try occupied  by  the  Quapaws,  the  Seneca  Tribe,  formerly 
known  as  the  Senecas  of  the  Sandusky,  and  the  Senecas 
and  Shawnees,  formerly  known  as  the  Senecas  and  Shawnees 
of  Louistown,  as  the  said  countries  are  described  and  their 
limits  defined  in  the  treaties  with  the  said  several  nations, 
tribes  and  bands  of  Indians,  are  hereby  annexed  to,  and 
shall,  for  all  the  purposes  of  this  Act,  constitute  and  con- 
tinue an  integral  pare  of  the  Cha-lah-ki  Judicial  District 
hereby  established. 

Sec.  3.  And' be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  jurisdiction  of 
each  Court  hereinafter  created  shall  be  co-extensive  with 
the  limits  of  the  district  for  which  it  is  created,  as  such  dis- 
trict is  hereinafter  defined. 

Sec  4.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  in  each  of  the  said 
two  districts  there  is  hereby  created,  and  shall  hereafter  be 
held,  semi-annually,  a  District  Court  of  the  Confederate 
States,  with  such  jurisdiction  in  such  matters,  civil  and 
criminal,  to  such  extent  and  between  such  parties  as  is  here- 
inafter provided. 

Six.  5.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  there  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  by  and 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate  or  the  Provisional 
Congress,  one  Judge  of  the  District  Courts  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  for  the  said  Cha-lah-ki  and  Tush-ca-hom-ma 
Districts,  who  shall  reside  permanently  in  one  or  the  other 
of  said  districts,  and  hold  his  office  during  the  term  of  four 
years ;  and  there  shall  also  be  appointed  one  marshal  and 
one  attorney  for  each  of  said  Districts,  all  of  whom  shall 
hold  their  offices  during  the  term  of  four  years,  and  reside 
permanently  in  their  respective  districts. 

Sec.  G.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  attorneys  shall 
receive  the  same  fees  and  salary  as  are  now  allowed  to  the 
district  attorneys  for  the  Western  District  of  Arkansas ;  and 
the  marshals  shall  each  be  entitled  to  the  same  fees  as  are 
now  allowed  to  the  marshal  for  the  Western  District  of  Ar- 
kansas ;  and  each  such  marshal  shall  also,  in  addition,  be 
paid  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  annually,  as  a  compensa- 
tion for  extra  services. 

Sec  7.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  District  Judge 
for  the  Cha-lah-ki  and  Tush-ca-hom-ma  Districts  shall  ap- 
point a  clerk  and  may  also  be  interpreter  for  each  Indian 
language   spoken   in  the   district,   for   each  of  the   District 


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Courts  over  which  lie  presides.  Each  of  said  clerks  shall 
also  be  the  register  in  chancery,  shall  hold  his  office  during 
the  pleasure  of  the  Court,  shall  keep  his  office  at  the  place 
where  the  Court  is  held,  shall  receive  the  same  fees  and  com- 
pensation as  arc  now  allowed  by  law  to  the  clerk  of  the  Dis- 
trict Court  for  the  Western  District  of  Arkansas,  and  shall 
be  qualified  in  like  manner,  and  perform  like  duties  as  the 
Clerks  of  other  District  Courts  of  the  Confederate  Sti 
Each  interpreter  shall  he  employed  during  the  pleasure  of 
the  Court,  and  paid  such  compensation  as  the  Judge  shall 
fix,  net  exceeding  three  dollars  per  day,  for  each  day  of  the 
session.  The  marshals  shall  give  bond  and  bo  qualified  like 
the  marshals  of  the  Confederate  States  in  other  districts; 
and  the  marshals,  clerks  and  interpreters  shall  he  selected 
from  among  the  citizens  of  the  Choctaw  or  Chickasaw  and 
Cherokee  nations,  respectively. 

Si  e.  8.  .'.nil  In-  if  farther  enacted,  That  the  District  Court 
for  the  Tush-ea-hom-ma  District  shall  be  held  at  Boggy 
Depot  in  the  Choctaw  Nation;  and  that  the  District  ( 
for  the  Cha-lah-ki  District  shall  he  held  at  Tahlequah,  in 
the  Cherokee  Nation,  or  at  the  seat  of  Government  of  the 
Cherokee  Nation,  whenever  that  shall  be  removed  from 
Tahlequah  to  any  other  point  or  place. 

Si  (  .  !!.  And  he  it  further  enacted,  That  the  terms  of  said 
District  Court  for  the  District  of  Cha-lah-ki  shall  he  holden 
on  the  first  Mondays  oi  March  and  September;  and  the  said 
District  Court  lor  the  District  of  Tush-ca-hom-ma,  shall  be 
holden  on  the  Third  Mondays  of  April  and  October  in  each 
and  every  year. 

Sec.  10.  And  be  it  further  enacted.  That  in  all  criminal 
trials  in  said  District  Courts,  and  in  all  suits  therein  at  com- 
mon law,  the  right  of  trial  by  jury  shall  remain  inviolate  ; 
and  prosecutions  for  all  offences  hereby  made  cognizable  in 
said  District  Courts,  shall  be  commenced  by  presentment  or 
indictment  of  a  Grand  -Jury. 

Sec.  11  And  be  it  further  enacteA;  That  each  of  the  said 
District  Courts  shall  have,  possess  and  exercise  criminal 
jurisdiction,  co-extensive  with  the  limits  of  the  District,  to 
try  and  punish  persons  guilty  of  any  offence  against  the 
laws  of  the  Confederate  States,  in  force  within  the  District, 
the  punishment  whereof,  when  there  committed,  is  provided 
for  by  law,  or  treaty  of  the  Confederate  States;  and  to  en- 
force the  execution  of  all  laws  of  the  Confederate  States, 
declared  to  be  in  force  in  the  Indian  country,  or  within   the 


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limits  of  an  Agency  Reserve,  or  of  the  Forts  or  Military- 
Posts  therein.  And  the  said  District  Courts  shall  respec- 
tively have  jurisdiction  to  try,  condemn  and  punish  offend- 
ers against  any  of  such  laws  or  treaties,  to  adjudge  and 
pronounce  sentence,  and  cause  execution  thereof  to  be  done, 
in  the  same  manner  as  is  done  in  other  District  Courts  of 
the  Confederate  States ;  to  which  end  each  of  said  District 
Courts  shall  possess  the  powers  heretofore  possessed  by 
Circuit  Courts  of  the  United  States,  so  far  as  the  same  shall 
be  necessary  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  or  of 
the  Treaties  with  the  several  Indian  Nations,  Tribes  and 
Bands. 

Sec.  12.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  each  of  said  Dis- 
trict Courts  shall  have  the  same  admiralty  jurisdiction  as 
other  District  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States,  against 
persons  residing,  or  vessels  and  other  subjects  of  admiralty 
jurisdiction  found  within  the  district  ;•  and  in  all  civil  suits 
at  law  or  in  equity,  where  the  matter  in  controversy  is  of 
greater  value  than  five  hundred  dollars,  between  a  citizen 
or  citizens  of  any  State  or  States  of  the  Confederate  States, 
or  of  any  Territory  or  Province  of  the  same,  or  an  alien  or 
aliens,  and  a  citizen  or  citizens  of  the  District,  or  a  person 
or  persons  residing  therein  ;  which  jurisdiction  shall  be 
exercised  in  such  manner  and  witli  like  pleadings  and  pro- 
cess, as  in  other  District  Courts  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Sec.  13.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  District 
Courts  for  the  Districts  of  Tush-ca-hom-ma  and  Cha-lahki, 
respectively,  shall  have  no  jurisdiction  to  try  and  punish 
any  person  for  any  offence  committed  prior  to  the  12th  day 
of  July,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one,  in  the  said  Tush-ca-hom-ma  District ; 
or  prior  to  the  seventh  day  of  October,  in  the  same  year,  in 
the  Cha-lah-ki  District,  as  hereby  constituted ;  nor  shall 
any  action  in  law  or  equity  be  maintained  in  the  said  Dis- 
trict Court  of  Tush-ca-hom-ma  District  where  the  cause  of 
action  accrued  before  the  twelfth  day  of  July,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  fifty-eight; 
and  in  the  said  District  Court  of  the  Cha-lah-ki  District, 
where  the  cause  of  action  accrued  before  the  seventh  day  of 
October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hun- 
dred and  sixty-one ;  except  where  the  action  is  brought  by 
the  Confederate  States,  or  by  a  State  of  the  Confederacy, 
for  its  or  their  own  use  and  benefit. 

Sec  14.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  each  of  the  said 


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District  Courts  shall  have  jurisdiction  in  all  civil  suits  in- 
stituted by  the  Confederate  States,  or  by  one  or  more  States 
of  the  Confederacy,  against  any  person  or  persons,  whether 
white  men  or  Indians,  residing  or  found  within  the  District; 
and  in  all  civil  suits  the  same  practice  shall  govern,  the 
same  proceedings  be  had  in  all  respects,  before  and  after 
judgment  or  decree,  and  the  same  costs  be  adjudged,  and  be 
in  the  same  manner  collected,  as  now  in  the  District  Court 
of  the  Confederate  States  for  the  Western  District  of  Ar- 
kansas ;  and  the  forms  of  all  original,  mesne,  and  final  pro- 
cess shall  be  the  same  a^  are  now  used  in  that  Court. 

Sec.  lo.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  the  proceed- 
ings in  said  Courts  shall  be  had  and  recorded  in  the  Eng- 
lish language  ;  and  no  person  shall  be  competent  to  serve  as 
a  juror  who  is  not  a  citizen  of  the  District;  that  all  citizens 
of  the  District,  being  free  males,  without  mixture  of  negro 
blood,  and  over  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  if  competent 
by  the  general  rules  of  law,  shall  be  competent  to  serve  as 
jurors,  preference  being  given  to  those  who  can  speak  and 
understand  the  English  language;  and  every  Indian  tried 
in  said  Courts  having  the  right  to  a  jury  of  one-half  of  his 
own  Nation ;  that  the  practice  in  all  criminal  cases  therein, 
including  the  right  of  challenge  of  jurors,  shall  be  the  same 
as  in  the  District  Court  of  the  Confederate  States  for  the 
Western  District  of  Arkansas;  and  that  within  the  sphere 
of  its  jurisdiction  hereby  defined,  each  of  said  Courts  shall 
be  invested  with  the  same  powers  as  said  District  Court 
of  the  Western  District  of  Arkansas;  its  proceedings  shall 
have  the  same  validity  as  those  of  that  Court,  and  shall  be 
authenticated  in  the  same  mode  and  have  the  like  faith  and 
credit  everywhere. 

Sec  16.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  when  any  white 
person,  not  by  birth,  adoption,  or  otherwise,  a  citizen  or 
member  of  any  Indian  Nation  or  tribe,  as  such  citizenship 
is  defined  by  law  or  treaty,  shall  be  tried  in  either  of  said 
District  Courts  for  any  criminal  offence,  such  person  shall 
be  entitled,  upon  demand,  arid  as  of  right,  to  a  jury  of  white 
men,  to  obtain  which  a  writ  of  venire  facias  may,  if  neces- 
sary, issue  to  the  Marshal  of  an  adjoining  District  in  a 
State,  commanding  him  to  summon  a  panel  of  twenty  per- 
sons to  serve  as  jurors  in  the  given  case,  which  writ  shall 
be  served  by  such  Marshal,  and  the  attendance  of  the  panel 
compelled,  if  necessary,  by  attachment:  and  out  of  such 
panel  and  talismen,  summoned  in  like  manner,  if  necessary, 
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the  jury  shall  be  selected,  no  challenge  being  in  such  case 
allowed  the  prisoner,  except  for  cause. 

Sec.  17.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  existing  pro- 
visions of  law,  relating  to  the  powers,  duties  or  modes  of 
proceeding  and  action  of  the  District  Courts  of  the  Confed- 
erate States,  of  a  general  nature,  not  locally  inapplicable 
and  not  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  shall  extend 
and  apply  to  said  District  Courts  ;  that  their  judgments  and 
decrees  shall  have  the  same  effect  as  those  of  such  other 
courts,  and  sales  of  property  thereunder  shall  be  made  and 
evidenced,  and  title  thereby  pass,  in  the  same  manner  as 
under  judgments  and  decrees  of  said  District  Court  for  the 
Western  District  of  Arkansas. 

Sec  18.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  Common  Law 
of  England  and  the  Statutes  of  England,  of  a  general  na- 
ture, made  prior  to  the  fourth  day  of  July,  seventeen  hun- 
dred and  seventy-six,  in  aid  of  and  raodifjnng  or  adding  to  the 
Common  Law,  so  far  as  the  same  have  not  been  changed,  al- 
tered, annulled  or  repealed  by  the  laws,  customs  and  usages 
of  the  Cherokee  Nation,  shall  govern  in  each  of  said  dis- 
tricts, in  all  matters  within  the  civil  jurisdiction  of  the  said 
District  Courts. 

Sec  19.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That,  whenever  any 
person  is  convicted  of  any  offence,  amounting  to  felony,  at 
Common  Law,  or  by  Statute,  in  either  of  the  said  District 
Courts,  and  part  of  the  punishment  inflicted  is  imprison- 
ment, such  punishment  shall  be  imprisonment  and  confine- 
ment at  hard  labor,  for  the  whole  term  adjudged  ;  and  it 
shall  be  lawful  for  the  Court  by  which  the  sentence  is  passed, 
to  order  the  same  to  be  executed  in  any  State  Prison  or  Pen- 
itentiary in  an  adjoining  State,  the  use  of  which  may  be  al- 
lowed by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  for  such  purpose  ,  and 
the  expenses  attendant  upon  the  execution  of  such  sentence 
shall  be  paid  by  the  Confederate  States. 

Sec  20.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  bills  of  exceptions, 
writs  of  error,  and  appeals  from  the  decisions  of  each  of  said 
District  Courts,  shall  be  allowed,  and  may  be  taken  to  the 
Supreme  Cuurt  of  the  Confederate  States,  in  the  same 
manner  and  under  the  same  regulations  as  from  other  Dis- 
trict Courts  of  the  Confederate  States,  where  the  value  of 
the  property  or  the  amount  in  controversy,  to  be  ascertained 
by  the  oath  of  either  party,  or  of  any  other  competent  wit- 
ness, shall  exceed  one  thousand  dollars  ;  but  in  cases  involv- 
ing the  question  of  title  to  slaves,  such  writs  of  error  or 


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appeals  shall  be  allowed  to  and  decided  by  the  said  Supreme 
Court,  without  regard  to  the  value  of  the  matter,  property 
or  title,  in  controversy ;  and  from  any  decision  of  cither  of 
said  Courts,  or  the  Judge  of  cither,  upon  any  writ  of  habeas 
corpus,  involving  a  question  of  personal  freedom,  a  writ  of 
error  or  appeal  shall  lie  allowed  to  said  Supreme  Court. 

Sec.  21.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  writs  of  error 
shall  lie  to  the  Supreme  Court,  in  behalf  of  the  acctised,  from 
the  decisions  of  the  said  District  Courts,  in  all  criminal 
cases  where  the  life  or  liberty  of  the  accused  is  put  in  jeo- 
pardy ;  and  the  writ  of  error  in  such  cases  shall  operate  [as]  a 
supersedeas  when  it  is  so  directed  by  the  Judge  of  the  District 
Court,  or  by  a  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court;  and  the  Su- 
preme Court  shall  provide  such  rules  for  the  regulation  of 
this  remedy  in  error  as  shall  prevent  abuse  thereof,  or  the 
escape  of  persons  accused  of  crime. 

Sec.  22.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  District  Judge 
for  the  Cha-lah-ki  and  Tush-ca-hom-ma  Districts  shall  re- 
ceive an  annual  salary  of  twenty-five  hundred  dollars,  to  be 
paid  quarter-yearly  from  the  date  of  his  commission,  at  the 
Treasury  of  the  Confederate  States  ;  and  there  shall  be  ap- 
propriated annually  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  to  de- 
fray the  contingent  expenses  of  each  of  said  courts. 

Sec.  23.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  this  Act  shall 
take  effect  as  to  each  Nation,  Tribe  or  Band  therein  named, 
from  the  date  of  the  ratification  of  the  treaty,  by  such  Nation, 
Tribe  or  Band. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  399.]  AN  ACT 

To  Provide  for  an  increase  of  the  Quartermaster  and  Com- 
missary Departments. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  in  addition  to  the  number  of  Quartermasters,  Assistant 
Quartermasters,  Commissaries  and  Assistant  Commissaries, 
now  allowed  by  law,  the  President  shall  have  authority  to 
appoint  as  many  of  said  officers,  as  shall,  in  his  discretion, 
be  deemed  necessary  at  permanent  posts  and  depots;  said 
appointments  to  terminate  at  the  close  of  the  war,  or  sooner 


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if  the  services  of  the  officer  can  be  advantageously  dispensed 
with  :  Provided,  That  no  Quartermaster,  Assistant  Quarter- 
ter,  Commissary  or  Assistant  Commissary,  be  authorized  to 
employ  a  clerk ;  but  the  commanding  officer  of  Quartermas- 
ters, Assistant  Quartermasters,  Commissaries  or  Assistant 
Commissaries,  shall  detail  from  the  ranks  under  his  com- 
mand such  person  or  persons  as  may  be  necessary  for  service 
in  the  offices  of  said  Quartermasters,  Assistant  Quartermas- 
ters, Commissaries  and  Assistant  Commissaries. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  400.]  RESOLUTION 


• 


In  relation  to  payment  to  Disbursing  Clerk  of  appropriation 
for  removal  of  the  Seat  of  Government. 

Resolved,  That  the  Committee  on  the  Removal  of  the  Seat 
of  Government,  be  authorized  from  the  appropriation  for 
that  object,  to  pay  to  the  widow  of  Samuel  Melvin,  the  de- 
ceased disbursing  clerk,  two  hundred  dollars  for  the  services 
of  the  said  clerk  in  disbursing  the  said  appropriation. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  401.]  AN  ACT 

Appropriating  the  sum  of  one  thousand  one  hundred  and 
ten,  twenty-two  hundredths  dollars  for  the  relief  of  the 
Mobile  and  Great  Northern  Railroad  Company,  being  the 
difference  between  fifteen  and  twenty-four  per  cent,  duty 
on  railroad  iron  paid  at  Pensacola,  in  May,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  the  second  sec- 
tion of  an  act  approved  May  twenty-first,  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty-one,  entitled  "An  Act  to  define  with  more,  cer- 
tainty the  meaning  of  an  act  entitled  '  An  Act  to  fix  the 
duties  on  articles  therein  named,'  "  approved  March  fifteenth, 
eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-one,  the  sum  of  one  thousand 


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one  hundred  and  ten,  twenty-two  hundredths  dollars,  be,  and 
the  same  is  hereby,  appropriated  out  of  any  money  in  the 
Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  paid  to  William 
D.  Dunn,  President  of  the  Mobile  and  Great  Northern  Rail- 
road Company,  being  the  difference  between  fifteen  and 
twenty-four  per  cent,  duty  on  railroad  iron  of  the  value  of 
twelve  thousand  and  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  seventy- 
five  hundredths  dollars  withdrawn  from  warehouses  at  Pen- 
sacola  in  the  month  of  May,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty  - 
ono. 

Approved  February  15,  1SG2. 


No.  402.]  AN  ACT 

Concerning  the  pay  and  allowances  due  to  deceased  Soldiers. 

Section  1.  Tlie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  pay  and  allowances  due  to  any  deceased 
volunteer,  non-commissioned  officer,  musician,  or  private, 
in  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  paid  to  the 
widow  of  the  deceased,  if  living;  if  not,  to  the  children,  if 
any ;  and  in  default  of  widow  or  children,  to  the  father,  if 
living,  and  if  not,  to  the  mother  of  such  deceased  volunteer. 

Sec.  2.  The  pay  and  allowance  due  as  aforesaid  shall  be 
paid  by  the  paymaster  or  proper  officer  charged  with  the 
payment  of  the  troops,  to  the  person  or  persons  entitled  to 
the  same,  or  to  his  or  her  authorized  agent,  attorney,  or 
guardian,  upon  the  pay-roll  made  out  and  certified  by  the 
captain  or  commanding  officer  of  the  company  to  which  the 
deceased  was  attached,  which  pay-roll  the  captain  or  com- 
manding officer  as  aforesaid  shall  make  out  and  deliver  to 
the  person  or  persons  entitled  to  such  pay  and  allowance,  or 
to  his,  her  or  their  authorized  agent,  attorney,  or  guardian, 
and  shall  state  in  such  pay  roll  the  name  of  the  deceased 
volunteer,  the  company  and  regiment  to  which  he  was  at- 
tached, and  the  date  of  his  enlistment  and  death;  and  the 
paymaster  or  officer  to  whom  said  pay-roll  shall  be  directed, 
shall  pay  the  same  according  to  the  tenor  thereof,  and  shall 
file  such  pay-roll  with  the  pay-rolls  of  the  army. 

Approved  February   lo,   1862. 


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No.  403.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  the  connection  of  the  Railroad  from  Selma, 
in  Alabama,  to  Meridian,  in  Mississippi. 

Whereas,  The  President  in  his  Message  of  the  17th  of 
December  has  expressed  the  opinion  that  the  completion  of 
the  Mississippi  and  Alabama  River  Railroad,  so  as  to  con- 
nect Selma,  in  Alabama,  with  Meridian,  in  Mississippi,  is 
indispensable  for  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war,  in 
which  opinion  Congress  fully  concurs  ;  now,  therefore  : 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  President  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  authorized 
to  advance  to  the  President  and  Directors  of  the  Alabama 
and  Mississippi  River  Railroad  Company,  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  for  the  purpose  of  com- 
pleting the  Railroad  connection  between  Selma,  in  Alabama, 
and  Meridian,  in  Mississippi,  upon  such  terms  and  condi- 
tions as  he  may  deem  best  to  secure  the  early  completion  of 
said  Railroad  connection,  and  to  secure  the  return  of  the 
money  so  advanced. 

Approved  February  15,  1862. 


No.  404.]  AN  ACT 

To  compensate  Dillon  Jordan  and  F.  Glackmeyer,  for  ser- 
vices rendered  the  Government. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  sum  of  four  hundred  and  fourteen  thirty-six 
one  hundredths  dollars  be  paid  to  Dillon  Jordan,  of  Pensacola, 
Florida,  out  of  any  monies  in  the  Treasury  not  otherwise 
appropriated,  in  full  for  services  rendered,  as  reported  by 
the  Postmaster-General ;  and  the  further  sum  of  four  hun- 
dred dollars  is  hereby  appropriated,  out  of  any  money  in  the 
Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  to  be  paid  to  F.  Glack- 
meyer, in  full,  for  services  similarly  reported. 

Approved  Feb.  15,  1S62. 


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No.  405.]  AN  ACT 

To  define  and  establish  the  Compensation  of  Members  of  the 
Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  in  refer- 
ence  to  mileage. 

Section  1.  T'nc  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 

do  enact,  That  in  addition  to  the  compensation  allowed  by 
law  to  members  of  Congress,  each  member  for  each  ses- 
sion shall  be  allowed  eight  dollars  for  every  twenty  miles,  ac- 
tually and  necessarily  travelled  by  other  than  Railroad  or 
Steamboat  transportation,  in  coming  from,  and  returning  to, 
his  place  of  residence  from  the  place  where  the  Congress 
may  assemble,  in  lieu  of  the  mileage  now  allowed  over  said 
space. 

Approved  February  17,  1862. 


No.  406.]  AN  ACT 

To  Repeal  An  Act  therein  named. 

The.  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  an  Act  entitled,  "  An  Act  to  provide  for  raising  and 
organizing,  in  the  State  of  Missouri,  additional  troops  for 
the  Provisional  Army  of  the  Confederate  States,"  endorsed, 
"passed  January  ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two," 
be,  and  the  same  is  hereby,  repealed. 

Approved  February  17,  1862. 


No.  409.]  AN  ACT 

To  provide  for  the  Preservation  and  Future  Publication  of 
the  Journals  of  the  Provisional  Congress,  and  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  Convention  which  framed  the  Provisional 
and  Permanent  Constitution  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  President  of  the  Congress  be,  and  he  is 
hereby,  authorized  and  instructed  to  have  prepared,  by  per- 


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sons  selected  by  him  and  sworn  to  secrecy,  two  copies  of 
the  Journals  of  the  Provisional  Congress,  and  the  Proceed- 
ings of  the  Convention  which  framed  the  Provisional  and 
Permanent  Constitutions  of  the  Confederate  States,  which, 
after  having  been  examined  by  him  and  certified  to  be  cor- 
rect, shall  be  sealed  and  endorsed  as  true  and  exact  copies 
of  the  originals. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  one  of  the  copies  of 
the  Journals  and  Proceedings  aforesaid  shall  be  deposited  in 
the  office  of  the  Department  of  Justice,  under  the  care  of 
the  Attorney-General,  and  the  other  retained  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  Congress;  and  the  originals  of  the  same,  similarly 
sealed  and  endorsed,  shall  be  deposited  with  the  Secretary  of 
State;  all  of  which  copies  and  originals  shall  be  preserved, 
with  the:r  seals  unbroken,  until  their  publication  shall  be 
ordered  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Approved  February  17,  1862. 


No.  410.]  AN  ACT 

To  amend  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the  Safe  Custody,  Printing, 
Publication  and  Distribution  of  the  Laws,  and  to  provide 
for  the  Appointment  of  an  additional  Clerk  in  the  De- 
partment of  Justice,"  approved  August  fifth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one. 

Section  1 .  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  enact,  That  the  laws  and  resolutions  required  by  said  Act 
to  be  published  in  the  gazettes,  shall  be  published  weekly, 
for  two  weeks,  instead  of  weekly  for  one  month ;  and  the 
compensation  therefor  shall  be  two  dollars  per  page,  esti- 
mated according  to  said  Act,  instead  of  one  dollar  and  a  half 
per  page,  as  therein  provided. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  third  section  of  said  Act  be  so  amended 
as  to  authorize  the  Attorney-General  to  cause  three  thou- 
sand copies  of  the  Provisional  and  Permanent  Constitutions, 
and  of  all  the  Acts  and  Resolutions  and  Treaties  of  the 
Provisional  Government  of  the  Confederate  States  which  are 
not  secret,  to  be  published  in  one  volume,  at  the  close  of  the 
present  session  of  Congress,  arranged,  and  with  marginal 
notes,  and  indexed,  as  provided  in  said  Act. 

Sec  3.  That  the  volumes   published  under  this  Act  shall 


105 

be  subject,  in  every  respect,  to  tbe  provisions  of  the  Act  of 
which  this  is  amendatory  ;  except  that,  if  paper  of  the  quality 
required  by  the  previous  Act  cannot  be  obtained,  such  paper 
may  be  used  as  the  Superintendent  of  the  Bureau  of  Print- 
ing may  select :  Provided,  That  the  Attorney-General  may 
postpone  the  binding  in  calf  until  one  year  after  the  termi- 
nation of  the  present  war;  and  he  may  cause  the  volume 
published  under 'this  Act  [to  be]  so  bound,  without  regard 
to  the  number  of  pages. 

Approved  February  17,  1862. 


No.  411.]  AN  ACT 

To  make  Disposition  of  Negro  Slaves  captured  from  Hostile 

Indians. 

Section  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
do  mad,  That  all  negroes  who  are  slaves,  belonging  to  hos- 
tile Indians  who  arc  members  or  citizens  of  any  one  of  the 
tribes  of  Indians  friendly  to  this  Government,  and  who  have 
been,  or  ina}'  hereafter  be,  captured  by  troops  or  persons  in 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  delivered  to 
the  Superintendent  of  Indian  Affairs  west  of  Arkansas. 

Sec.  2.  That  said  Superintendent  shall  carefully  inform 
himself  of  the  persons  and  tribes  to  whom  each  negro  be- 
longs, and  shall  promptly  notify  the  Executive,  or  Head 
Chief  of  the  proper  tribe  or  tribes,  to  receive  the  same,  at 
some  convenient  place,  and  shall  deliver  said  negro  or  ne- 
groes, to  said  Executive,  or  Head  Chief  of  said  friendly 
tribe  or  tribes,  as  captured  property,  to  be  held  by  said  tribe 
or  tribes  until  such  provisions  and  orders  shall  be  made  by 
this  Government  as  shall  seem  just  and  wise,  and  shall  take 
receipts  for  the  same. 

Sec  3.  That  the  said  Superintendent  shall,  at  or  before 
the  time  of  such  delivery,  make  out  a  record,  showing  the 
name  and  age  and  value  of  each  slave  received  by  him,  and 
shall  report  the  same,  and  the  fact  of  such  delivery,  or  other 
disposition  of  each  of  said  negroes,  to  the  Commissioner  of 
Indian  Affairs,  together  with  all  the  facts  of  time,  place  and 
circumstances  of  the  capture,  and  by  whom  captured;  but 
in  no  case  shall  any  free  negro  who  is  so  captured  be  given  up 
by  virtue  of  this  Act. 

Approved  February  17,  1862. 


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No.  413.]  AN  ACT 

To  Fix  the  Date  at  which  the  Bounty  shall  be  Paid  to  Sol- 
diers Enlisting  for  the  War. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  the  bounty  of  fifty  dollars,  allowed  by  existing  laws  to 
soldiers  enlisting  for  the  war,  or  re-enlisting  for  two  years, 
or  recruited,  shall  be  payable  as  soon  as  the  volunteer  en- 
titled thereto  shall  have  been  sworn  into  the  Confederate 
service,  and  shall  have  been  pronounced  by  any  Surgeon,  or 
Assistant  Surgeon  of  the  Confederate  States,  after  inspec- 
tion, as  being  fit  and  able  to  do  military  service. 

Approved  February  17,  1862. 


Confederate  States  of   America,  ) 
Department  of  Justice.      ) 

I  do  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  Laws  and  Resolu- 
tions have  been  carefully  compared  with  the  original  Rolls 
on  file  in  this  Department. 

JAMES  M.  MATTHEWS, 

Law  Clerk. 
Richmond,  March  19,  1862. 


I  N  DEX. 


\  ('COUNTS— 

Of  Acting  (Commissaries  and  Quartermasters  of  In- 
dian Troops;  how  settled  and  paid,  -  -  37 

Of  Receivers  under  f-equestration  Act;  how-lobe 
settled,  and  wlut  to  embrace,  85 

ADVANCEMENTS— 

To  South  Carolina,  on  account  of  her  claims  against 
theC.  *».,        -  U 

Of  Postage  in  Treasury  Notes,  -  -  -  19 

ALIEN  ENEMIES— 

Taxes  on  Properly  of,  liable  to  Sequestration,         -       18-19 

Amendment  of  the  Act  for  the  Sequestration  of  the 

Estates,  Property  and  Effects  of,   -  75-85 

Settlements  by  Receivers  of  their  Estates,   -  -  85 

Who  are  not  to  be  taken  as  Alien  Enemies,  -      77—79 

APPEALS— 

Allowed    to   Supreme  Court  from  decisions  of  Dis- 
trict Courts  in  certain  Indian  Territories,  -       98-99 
APPOINTMENTS— 

Of  certain  Officers  made  Executive  appointments,  -      51-5:? 

Of  Officers  to  raise  Regiments,  Companies,  &c,        -  54 

Of  Officers  of  Artillery  in  the  Provisional  Army, 
and  in  the  Volunteer  Corps,  55 

APPROPRIATIONS— 

For  payment  <>f  Salaries  of  Clerks,  office  hire,  &c, 

to  be  disbursed  to  Chief  State  Tax  Collectors,      -  13 

Transfer  of  certain  appropriations,-  -  -       14,21 

For  expenses  of  Government  for  the   year  ending 

February  18,  L862, 22-25 

To  comply   in  part   with   Treaty  Stipulations    with 

certain  Indian  Tribes,  -  26-3$ 

For  the  contingencies  of  office  of  the  Superin tenden- 
cy of  Indian  Affairs,  and  of  the  several  Indian 
Agencies,      ------  34 

May"  be   paid   in  coin.     Appropriation  to  purchase 

coin,  ------  .55 

Additional,    to   defray   the    expense   of  the   Public 

Printing,       ------  46 

To   reward  loyalty   of  Principal  Chief  of  Seminole 

Nation,         "__----  47 

For  certain  Floating  Defences,  -  -  -  48 

For  the  Naval  Service,  50 

For  the  Military  Service,        -  -  -  -  50' 


89 

-91 

99 

100- 

101 

37- 

-46 
45 

APPROPRT  \TIONS— Continued. 

For  Ordnance,  Ordnance  Stores  and  Equipments,    -  61 

For  the  relief  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  -  -       64-65 

For  raising  and  organizing  Troops  in  Kentucky,  and 

supplying  same  with  clothing,  &c,  66 

For  the  redemption  of  certain  Bonds,  -  -       68-69 

For  the  purpose  of  providing  coin,  69 

For  the  payment  of  interest  due  Banks  at  Memphis,       69-70 
To  connect  the  Richmond  and  Danville  with  the  N. 

Carolina  Railroads,  for  military  purposes,  -  73 

For   the   expenses   of  Government,  in  the  different 
Departments,  from  the  18th   February  to  1st  of 
April,  1862,  ------ 

To  pay  contingent  expenses  of  Courts  in  certain  In- 
dian Territories,       - 
For  the  relief  of  the  Mobile  &,  Great  Northern  R.  R. 
Company,      ------ 

ARIZONA— 

Territory  of,  organized,  - 

Delegate  to  Congress  from,     -  -  -  - 

Act  suspended  till  President's  Proclamation,  -  46 

ARMS— 

Of  Volunteers  for  twelve  months,  to  be  under  the 

President's  control,     -  -  -  -  60 

ARMY— 

Officers  to  affix  signature  of  President  to  commis- 
sions in,         ------  7 

Appointment  of  Chief  Bugler  or  Principal  Musician,  8 

Bounty   and   Furloughs  to  Privates,  Musicians  and 

Non-commissioned  officers,  -  9 

Transportation,  _____  Q 

Commutation  value  in  money  of  the  transportation 

in  lieu  of  furlough,  -----  9 

Re-organization  of  troops  re-volunteering  or  re-en- 
listing,  at  the  expiration  of  their  present  term  of 
service,  ------ 

Vacancies;  how  filled,  10 

Officers  in,  rendering  service  before  receiving  com- 
missions; their  rank  and  pay,  15 
Rec  ruiting  and  enlisting  of  men    for  companies  re- 
duced by  casualties,                                                                   16 
President  authorized  to  confer  temporary  rank  and 
command  on  officers  of  the  Navy,  doing  duty  with 
troops,           ______             20 

Appointment  of  officers  of  Engineers  in  the  Provi- 
sional Army.     Their  rank,  pay  and  emoluments,       35-36 
Temporary  rank  and  command  upon  officers  of  the 

Army,  on  duty  in  certain  Bureaus,  -  -  36 

When  such  appointments  to  cease.  To  be  held  with- 
out prejudice  to  their  positions  in  the  Army,        -  36 
Provision    for    raising   and    organizing    additional 

troops  in  the  State  of  Missouri,      -  48,  103 

Appropriation  for  Military  service,  -  -  -  50 

Volunteers  may  be  accepted  singly  as  well  as  in 

companies,    ------ 


10 


53 


3 

ARMY— Continued. 

Appointments  of  Field  and  Company  Officers  under 
Act  to  raise  additional  military  force  to  serve  du- 
ring the  war.     Vacancies  tilled  by  promotion,      -  53 
Vacancies  in  the    ranks  of  companies   may  be  filled 

by  vol u n 1 i  ergj  -  -  _  _  _  53 

Officers,  &c,  may  be  detailed   to  recruit  for  compa- 
nies, -------  53 

When  recruits  to  be  mustered  in.     Transportation, 

subsistence  and  pay,  -  53—54 

Appointment  of  persons  as  field  officers  or  Captains, 

to  raise  Regiments,  Companies,  Ac.     Pay,  -  54 

When  appointments  to  expire,  -  -  54 

When  enlistment  under  commission   of  Captain  not 
obligatory,    ------  54 

App ttnent  of  Officers  of  Artillery  in  the  Provi- 
sional Army,  and  in  the  Volunteer  Corps,  -  55 
President  authorized  to  call  on  the  Slates  for  troops, 
^  to  serve  for  three  years,  or  during  the  war,          -  69 
Troops  to  be  equalized  nmongst  the  States,            -            GO 
Provision  for  recruiting  Companies, now  in  the  ser- 
vice, for  twelve  months,       -                                                63—64 
Payment  of  Troops  in  Missouri,         - 
Term  for  whirl,  militia  called  into  service  not  to  ap- 
ply   to    certain    men   drafted    into   service  by  the 
States,              ------              66 

.Appropriation  for  raising  and   organizing  troops  in 
Kentucky,  and  supplying  the  same  with  clothing, 
&'.,  - 
Officers   appointed  to  raise  certain  Companies,  Bat- 
talions  and    Regiments,  to   be   the   officers  of  the 
same,  ------  71 

Commissions  of  such  officers  made  absolute,  -  71 

Organization  of  the  Maryland  Line,  -  -      91—92 

Pay  and  allowances  due  to  deceased  Soldiers,  -  11 

Date  at  which  bounty  paid   to  soldiers  enlisting  for 

the  war,        ----__  jpg 

ARTILLEKV- 

Appointment  of  officers  of,  in  the  Provisional  Ar-. 

inv,  and  in  the  Volunteer  Corps,     -  55 

ASSAY  OFFICES— 

Established  at  New  Orleans,  -  -  -  -  G2 

Duties  of  Assay er.     Bond  and  oath,  -  -  G2 

To  have  charge  of  the  Mint  Edifice,  tools,  &c,        -  61 

To  defray  expenses  of  the  Assaying  establishment,  68 

Assayer's  compensation,        -  -  -  -  G2 

May  employ  workmen  and   inferior  officers,  -  02 

Report  of  Assavcr's  proceedings,     -  -  -  G2 

ASSIST  A  NT  S  ECR  E  V  ARIES— 

Appointments  of,  made  Executive  appointments,     -      51-52 
ATTALA  COUNTY— 

To  form  part  of  Southern  Judicial  District  in  Mis- 
sissippi,        ------      7.^75 

ATTORNEYS— 

For  Judicial  Districts  in  Tennessee,  -  -  10 


66 


60-67 


4 

ATTORNEYS— Continued. 

For  Judicial  Districts  in  certain  Indian  Territories,  94 

BANKS— 

Appropriation  to  pay  interest  due  the   Banks  at 

Memphis,       ------      69-70 

BILLS  OF  EXCEPTIONS— 

Allowed  to  Supreme  Court  from  decisions  of  Dis- 
trict Courts  in  certain  Indian  Territories,  -      98-99 
BOUNTY— 

Granted  to  privates,  musicians    and    non-commis- 
sioned Officers,         -----  0 

To  persons  enlisting  as  seamen,  or  who  extend  their 

enlistments,  -----  52 

To  recruits,      -----  -53-54,63 

To'State  troops  who  re-enlist  in  the  service  of  the 

C.  S., 68 

Date  at  which  to  be  paid  to  soldiers  enlisting  for 

the  war,         ------  106 

BUGLERS— 

President  authorized   to   appoint  Chief   Bugler  to 

each  Regiment  in  the  Army.  -  8 

CARRIERS— 

Of  Electoral  votes  of  the  States  ;  their  mileage  and 

pay,  _-___-  12 

CHAPLAINS— 

Appointment  in  the  Navy,      -  -  -  21 

Pay  and  emoluments,  -  -  21 

CHOCTAW  NATION— 

Payment  of  interest  to,  upon  stocks  of  the  State  of 

Virginia,        ------  75 

CLAIMS— 

Of  certain  officers  to  be  audited  by  Secretary  of  War,  51 

CLERKS— 

In  the  several  Bureaus  of  the  Treasury  Department,       73-74 
May  be  employed  on  trial,  subject  to  rules,  -  74 

Salaries,  ------  74 

Of  Board  of    Commissioners  under  Sequestration 

Act.     His  salary,    -  -  -    ,         -  -  84 

COIN— 

Appropriation  to  provide  same  for  the  Government,  69 

COMMISSARIES— 

Accounts  of,  of  certain  Indian  troops,  37 

Appointment  at  permanent  posts  and  depots,  -     99-1CO 

Not  allowed  Clerks,    -  -  -  -  100 

Persons  from  the  ranks  may  be  detailed  to  serve  in 

their  offices,  -  100 

COMMISSIONERS  — 

Board   of,  under  Sequestration  Act,  may  appoint  a 

Clerk, -  84 

Also  Commissioners  to  take  the  examination  of  wit- 
nesses, ------  85 

May  administer  oaths  to  witnesses  and  issue  sub- 

poonas,  ------  85 

COMMUTATION— 

In  lieu  of  furloughs,  -  9,  68 


5 

CONGRESS— 

Representation  of  Kentucky    in  House  of    Repre- 
sentative?,    ------  17 

Delegate   from  Tcrritor}*  of  Arizona,  -  -  45 

His  compensation,        -----  73 

Duties   of  the  President  of,  under  the  act  to  put  in 
operation   the  Government  under  the  Permanent 
Constitution,  _____  88' 

Mileage  allowed  members,      -  103 

Preservation  and  future  publication  of  journals,       -  103-104 
•CONVENTION— 

Preservation  and  future  publication  of  the  journals 
of  the,  which  framed  the  Provisional  and  Perma- 
nent Constitutions   -----  1(13-104 

COURTS— 

When  to  be  held  in  judicial  districts  in   Tennessee,  10 

Judges  of  District  four's  may  interchange  with  each 

(>t her  temporarily,  -----  6S 

Decisions   of  judges  presiding  by  interchange  made 
valid,  -  -  -  -  -  65 

Interchanges  to  be  entered  on  the  records,  -  -  66 

Judicial  Courts  in  certain  Indian  Territories  estab- 
lished, ------       93-09 

DECEASED  SOLDIERS— 

Act  concerning  the  pay  and  allowances  due  to         -  JP91 

DEFENCES— 

Appropriations  for  Floating  Defences,  48 

Of  the  Mississippiriver,  appropriation  to  meet  expen- 
ditures for,    ------  01 

DISTRICT   ATTOB N EYS— 

A  ppointment  of,  for  Tennessee,  -  -  -  TO 

DISTRICT  COURTS— 

Judges  of,  may  interchange. temporarily,      -  -  65 

Their  acts  and  decisions  made  valid,  05 

Interchanges  to  be  entered  on  the  records,  -  C6 

In  certain  Indian  Territories,  -  93—99 

To  be  held  semi-annually,  94 

Appointment  of  Judge,  Marshal  and  Attorney  ;  term 

of  office,        ------  9i 

Clerk    and    Interpreter,      Register    in     Chancery.       94-95 
Where  to  be  held.     When  terms  to  commence.        -  95 

Jurisdiction,  -  95-Q7 

Effect  of  judgments  and  decrees,       -  98 

ELECTIONS— 

Mileage  and   pay  allowed    carriers  of  the  Electoral 

votes  of  the.  States  -  -.  -  -  12 

Custody  of  the  returns  and  certificates  of  the  votes 

of  the  Electors  for  President  and  Vice-President,  35 

ELECTORAL  VOTES— 

Carriers  of,  allowed  mileage  and  pay,  -  -  1" 

Custody  of  the  returns  and   certificate  of  the  votes 

of  the  Electors  for  President  and  Vice-President,  35 

ELECTORS  OF  PRESIDENT  AND  VICE-PRESIDENT— 
Custody  of  the  returns  and  certificates  of  the  votes 
for,    -------35 


ENGINEERS— 

President  authorized  to   appoint  officers  of,  in  the 

Provisional  Army,  -----       35-36 

Rank,  pay  and  emoluments,  36 

Appointments  to  expire  at  the  end  of  the  war,        -  36 

ENLISTMENTS— 

Of  additional  seamen  for  the  war,     -  S 

Re-organization  of  troops,  re-enlisting  at  the  expira- 
tion of  their  present  term  of  service,        -  -         9-10 
For  companies  reduced  by  casualties,             -  -  16 
EVANS,  BRIGADIER-GENERAL— 

Resolution  of  thanks  to,  and  to  the  officers  and  sol- 
diers under  his  command,  15 
EVIDENCE— 

Nature  of  evidence  admissible  in  cases  instituted  by 
au'hority    of   resolution,  appointing  Receiver   in 
Kentucky  under  Sequestration  Act,  -  -       70-71 

Affidavit  required  of  Receiver,  -  70-71 

Examination   of   witnesses  touching  claims  before 

Board  of  Commissioners  under  Sequestration  Act,  85 

Costs  of  proceedings  to  take  testimony,  by  whom  to 

be  paid,  ______  85 

EXECUTIVE  APPOl  NTMENTS— 

Appointments  of  certain  officers  made  such,  -       51-  2 

FLOATING  DEFENCES— 

Appropriations  for,  for  the  "Western  Rivers,  -  -  48 

FEES— 

Of  Clerks  and  Marshals  under  Sequestration  Act,  84 

Claims  for,  by  Attorneys,  Agents,  &c,  of  alien  ene- 
mies, on  the  funds    in   their  hands,  83 
FUNDS— 

Transfer  of,  to  Foreign  parts,  _  _  _  3 

Issue  of  further  Treasury  Notes  and  Bonds.    Bonds 

convertible  into  Notes,         -  25 

Provisions  in  regard  to  Indian  Trust  Funds,  -      49,  72 

Transfer  of  funds  from  the   Quartermasters  to  the 

Ordnance  Department,         _  _  _  _       67-08 

FURLOUGHS— 

Granted  to  privates,  musicians  and  non-commission- 
ed officers,     ------  9 

Allowance  in  lieu  of  furlough,  -  9 

To  State  Troops  who  re-enlist  in  the  service  of  the 

Confederate   States,  68 

GLACKMEYER,  F— 

Act  for  the  relief  of,  55 

Compensation   for    services    rendered  the  Govern- 
ment, _.___-  1P>2 
GOVERNMENT— 

Appropriation  for  expenses  of  for  the  year  ending, 

February  18,  1802, 22-25 

Act  to  put  the  Government  in  operation  under  the 

Permanent  Constitution,  88 

Appropriation  for  the  expenses  of,  from   February 

18,  to  April  1,  1862,  -  89-91 

Relinquishment  of  the  share  of,,  in  certain  prizes,  92. 


HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES— 

Number  of  members  in,  to  which  the  State  of  Ken- 
tucky is  entitled.     Election  of,  -  -  17 
INDIAN  TERRITORIES— 

Judicial  Courts  established  in,  -  -       93-99 

INDIANS— 

Appropriations  to  comply  in  part  with  treaty  stipu- 
lations with  Indian  Tribes,  -  26-3$ 
Also  for  contingencies  of  offices  of  ^uperintenden- 

cy  of  Indian  Affairs  and  Indian  Agencies,  -  34 

Appropriations  may  be  paid  in  coin,  -  -  35 

Provision  for  the  payment  of  certain  Indian  Troops,        3G-37 
Allowance  in  lieu  of  clothing,  37 

Accounts  of  acting  Commissaries  and  Quartermas- 
ters of  said    Indian    Troops.     Debts   incurred   or 
monies  advanced  by  them,  37 

Act  to  reward  the  loyalty  of  the  Principal  Chief  of 

the  Seminole  Nation,  47 

Provisions  in  regard  to  Indian  Trust  Funds,  -  49 

Indemnity  to  States  for  transferring  certain  Indian 

Trust  Funds  to  the  Confederate  States,      -  -  72 

Payment  of  interest  due   the  Choctaw   Nation  upon 

stocks  of  the  State  of  Virginia,     -  -  -  7f» 

Disposition  of  negro  slaves  captured  fiom   the  In- 
dians, ______  105 

JOHNSON,  COL.  EDWARD— 

Resolution  of  thanks  to.         -  -  -  -  49 

JORDAN  DILLON - 

Act  for  the  relief  of,    -----  55 

Compensation  for  certain  services  rendered  the  Gov- 
ernment,     ------  102 

JUDGES— 

Of  District   Courts  may  interchange,  temporarily,  65 

Th  sir  acts  and  decisions  made  valid,  -  -  66 

Interchanges  to   be  entered  on  the  records  of  the 

Courts,  ------  66 

In  certain  Indian  Territories.     Term  of  office,         -  94 

Their  salaries,  -----  99 

JUDICIAL  DISTRICTS— 

County  of  Attala,  Mississippi,  to  form  part  of  Sou- 
thern Judicial  District  in  that  State,  -  -       74-75 
Established  in  certain  Indian  Territories,     -  -       93-94 
Court  to  be  held  semi-annually,  94 
Appointment   of    Judge,    Marshal   and     Attorney. 

Term  of  office,  94 

Clerk  and  Interpreter,  94 

Register  in  Chancery,  -  95 

JUMPER,  JOHN— 

.  Act  to  reward  his  loyalty  as  principal  Chief  of  the 

Seminole  Nation,      -----  47 

JURISDICTION— 

Of  District  Courts  in  certain  Indian  Territories      -       95-97 
KENTUCKY— 

Admission  of,  _____  7 

Number  of  members  entitled   to  in   the  House   of 


8 


KENTUCKY-Continued. 

Representatives.     How  and  when  to  be  elected,  - 
Appropriation  for  raising  and  organizing  troops  in 

and  supplying  same  with  clothing,  &c,     - 
Governor  of  to  make   estimates  before  making  re- 
quisitions upon  the  Treasury,         - 
LABORERS— 

Additional  for  Postoffice  Department, 
LAUNDRESSES— 

May  be  employed  for  military  Hospitals,    - 
LAWS— 

Printing,  publication,  and  distribution  of,  - 
Binding,  ______ 

LIEN— 

For  taxes,         ---___ 
Judgment  or  decree   under  the  Sequestration  Act 

not  to  operate  as  a  lien,       - 
Execution  to  bind  property  of  the  deb'.or  from  the 
delivery  of  the  writ,  _  _  _  _ 

LUMBERTON  GUARDS— 

When  President  authorized  to  discharge  said  Com- 
pany, ______ 

MAIL  ROUTES— 

From  Hicks'  Ford  to  Lawrenceville,  in  Virginia,  es- 
tablished,    ---___ 
Certain  others  established,     -  -  -  _ 

MARINE  CORPS— 

Temporary  rank  and  command  may   be  conferred 
on  officers  of  doing  duty  with  troops, 
MARSHALS— 

For  Judicial  Districts  in  Tennessee, 

In  certain  Indian  Territories,  _  _  _ 

To  give  bond,  _____ 

MARYLAND— 

Resolutions  relating  to,  - 

Organization  of  Maryland  line,        - 
MELVIN,  SAMUEL,  dec'd— 

His  widow  to  be  paid  for  certain  services  rendered 
by  him,  ______ 

MESSENGERS— 

Additional   Messenger    for    the   Postoffice  Depart- 
ment,     ------ 

MICCO  HEMHA— 

Act  to  reward  his  loyalty  as  principal  Chief  of  the 
Seminole  Nation,  _  _  _ 

MILEAGE— 

Allowed  carriers  of  Electoral  votes 
Allowed  members  of  Congress, 
MILITIA— 

Term  for  which,  called  into  service,  not  to  apply  to 
certain  men  drafted  into  service  by  the  states,     - 
MISSISSIPPI  RIVER— 

Appropriation  for  Ordnance,  Ordnance  Stores  and 
Equipments  for  defences  of, 


17 
66 

or 

61 

6-7 

104-105 
104-105 

13 

83 
83 

4-5 


47 

85-87 


71-72 

10 
94 

95 

16-17 

91-92 


100 
61 

'17 

12 
103 

66 

61 


MISSOURI— 

Admission  of,  -  •> 

Election  of  members  to  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives from,        ___---  | 

Provision    for   raising    and     organizing    additional 

troops  in,     -  -  -  -  -  -     48,103 

Advancement  to  in  Treasury  Notes,  -       64-65,87-88 

Advancement  to  be  deducted  from  amount  found 
due  the  Suite  by  the  C.  S.  on  adjustment  of  ac- 
counts, _.----        65,  88 

How  advancement  to  be  applied.      -  Cr. 

MORRIS,  JOHN  )>.--- 

Appointed  Receiver  under  Sequestration  Act  in 
Kentucky,  with  special  powers,  11 

Evidence  admissible  in  cases  instituted  by  authority 

of  resolution  under  which  he  is  appointed.  -      70-71 

MUSICTANS- 

President  authorized  to  appoint  Principal  Musician 
to  each  regiment  in  the  army,        -  8 

Bounty  and  furlough  to,        -  -  -  -  '.' 

NATURALIZATION— 

Extended  to  persons  not  citizens  of  the  ('.  S.  en- 
gaged in  the  naval  service  of  the  C.  S.,     -  -  20 

Oath  required.     By  whom  to  be  administered,        -  20 

NAV\ 

President  authorized  to  confer  temporary  rank  ard 
command  on  officers  of,  doing  duty   with  troops,  20 

Also  on  officers  of  the  Marine  Corps,  -  -      71-72 

Appointment  of  Chaplains  in, 

Appointment  of  additional  officers  in,  -  -  22 

Appropriation  for  the  Naval  service,  -  -  r)0 

Appointment   of  officers   to  higher   grade   without 

prejudice  to  their  position,  -  52 

NAV\    DEPARTMENT— 

Appointment  of  additional  Clerks  and  a  Draftsman 
in.     Their  salaries,  -  8 

Certain  appropriations  for  defences   of  Mississippi 

river  to  be  expended  under  its  direction,  -  (31 

NOTES,  A.  B.— 

Act  for  the  relief  of,  as  Collector  of  the  Port  of  St. 

Marks,  Florida,         -  54-55 

OFFICERS— 

Superintendents  of  Hospitals  may  employ  Laun- 
dresses,       __.---  6-7 

To  affix  signature  of  the   President  to  commissions 

in  the  army,  -  7 

Additional  Clerks  and  Draftsmen  to  be  appointed 
in  the  Navy    Department,  - 

Election  of  upon  organization  of  troops  re-volun- 
teering or  re  enlisting,        -  9-10 

Vacancies,  how    tilled,  -  -  -  -  Id 

Marshal  and  Attorney  for  each  Judicail  District  in 

Tennessee,  _  _  -  -  -  It) 

Rank  and  pay  of  certain  officers  in  the  army  who 
commenced  service  before  receiving  their  com- 


10 

OFFICERS— Continued. 

missions,       --____  15 

Provision  in  behalf  of  certain  officers  who  were  in 

the  Revenue  service  of  the  U.  S.,  21 

Appointment  of  additional  officers  in  the  Nav}r,      -  22 

President  authorized  to  appoint  officers  of  Engi- 
neers in  the  Provisional  Army,      -  35-36 

Temporary  rank  and  command  on  officers  of  the 

Army  on  duty  in  certain  Bureaus,  36 

Appointment  of  Major-General  and  Brigadier-Gen- 
erals to  command  troops  in  Missouri.  Their  pay 
and  staff,       -  -  -  -  -  -  48 

Appointment  and  qualification  of  in  the  Territory 

of  Arizona,  _____  44 

Claims  of  certain  officers  to  be  audited  and  settled 

by  the  Secretary  of  War,  51 

Appointments  of  certain  officers  made  Executive  ap- 
pointments, _____       51-52 

Officers  of  the  Navy  may  be  appointed  to  higher 
grade  without  prejudice  to  their  position  under 
original  appointment,  52 

Appointments  of  under  the  Act  to  raise  an  addi- 
tional military  force  to  serve  during  the  war.  Va- 
cancies, how  filled,  53 

May  be  detailed  to  recruit  men  for  companies,         -  53 

President  may  appoint,  to  ruise  regiments,  compa- 
nies, &c.     Pay,  transportation  and  subsistence,    -  54 

"When  such  appointments  to  expire,  -  -  54 

Of  Artillery  in  the  Provisional  Army  and  in  the 

volunteer  corps,       -----  55 

To  recruit  for   Companies  now  in  the  service  for 

twelve  months,         -----  63 

Officers  appointed  by  the  President  to  raise  Com- 
panies, Battalions,  and  Regiments,  to  be  the  offi- 
cers of  the  same,      -----  71 

Commissions  of  such  officers  to  be  absolute,  -  71 

Temporary  rank  and  command  conferred  on  offi- 
cers of  the  Marine  corps  doing  duty  with  troops,       71-72 

Rank  of  certain  officers  fixed,  -  92-93 

Appointment  of  Quartermasters  and  Commissaries 
at  permanent  posts  and  depots,      -  -  -     99-100 

ORDNANCE— 

Appropriation   for  ordnance,  ordnance  stores   and 

equipments,  -----  61 

ORDNANCE  DEPARTMENT— 

Transfer  of  funds  to,  from  the  Quartermaster's  De- 
partment,     ------       67-68 

OURY,  G.    II.- 

His  compensation    as   delegate    in    Congress   from 

Arizona,        ------  73 

PARTNERSHIP— 

Process  and  proceedings  where  the  names  of  the 
members  of  a  partnership  of  alien  enemies  are 
unknown,     -  84 


tl 

PARTNERSHIP— Continued. 

Resident    partners    to   be    dealt   with  as   surviving 

partners,       -  -  -  -  -  -  77 

PATENTS— 

United  States  Patents  continued  in  force,     -  -  57 

Assignments  of  such  patents  -  57-5S 

Endorsement  on  patents  and  assignments.  -  58 

Affidavit  where  patent  or  assignment  is  lost  ■  r  can- 
not be  procured  from  U.  S.  Patent  Office,  -       58-  59 
Notice  by  applicant,                -  59 
Taking  out  patent   in   foreign    country  not  to  debar 

citizens  or  aliens,     -  -  -  -  -  59 

Limitation  of  term.      -----  59 

How  certain  act  relating  to  U.  S.  patents  to  lie  con- 
strued, ------  07 

PERMANENT  CONSTITUTION— 

Act  to  put  the  Government  in  operation  under,      -  88 

PILLOW,  BRIGADIER-GENERAL— 

R(  solution  of  thanks  to,  6 

POLK,  MAJOR-GENERAL— 

Resolution  of  thanks  to,  -  -  -  6 

POSTAGE— 

Treasury  notes  receivable  on  deposit   for  advanced 

payment  of,  -  19 

POSTAL  SERVICE— 

Certain  accounts  for  to  be  audited,    -  -  -       55-56 

Time  for  presenting  claims  for  limited,         -  -  56 

POST-OFFICE  DEPARTMENT— 

Clerical  force  increased.  -  C0-G1 

Auditor  of  the   Treasury    for,  to  appoint   clerk    to 

sign  his  name,  61 

Additional  messenger  and  laborers,  and  their  com- 
pensation,     ------  Til 

POSTMASTERS— 

To  receive  on  deposit   Treasury  notes  for  advanced 

payment  of  postage,  -  19 

Balances  remaining  in  their  hands  at  a  certain   time 

to  be  paid  to  the  Postmaster-General,       -  -  56 

Posmaster-General  to  pay  the  amounts  collected  to 

persons  having  claims  for  postal  service,  -  56 

Reimbursement  out  of  Treasury   for  amount   paid 

over,  ______  5Q 

POSTM  AST ER-( !  ENER  AL— 

Authorized  to  contract  for  carrying  the   mail   from 

Hicks'  Ford  to  Lawrenceville,  in  Virginia,  -  47 

To  cause  the  accounts  of  certain  persons,  for  postal 

services,  to  be  audited,         -  55-56 

To  collect  and  pay  over  certain  balances  remaining 
in  the  hands  of  postmasters,  account  thereof  to 
be  kept,        ------  56 

Reimbursement  out  of  the  Treasury  for  the  amount 

paid.  How  the  sum  reimbursed  to  be  disposed  of,  56 

May  appoint  additional  messenger  and  Laborers  for 

Post-Oflicc  Department,  GI 


12 

POST  ROUTES— 

From  Hicks'  Ford    to   Lawrenceville,  Virginia,  es- 
tablished,     ------  47 

Certain  others  established,     -  85-87 

PRESIDENT— 

Authorized  to  discharge  the  "Lumberton  Guards,"  4-5 

To   communicate  copy  of  resolution  of  thanks  to 

Major-General  Price,  -  5 

May  delegate  power  to  officers  to  affix  his  signa- 
ture to  commissions  in  the  army,  -  7 

Authorized  to  enlist  additional  seamen  for  the  war,  8 

To  appoint  marshal  and  attorney  for  each  judieial 

district  in  Tennessee,  10 

Authorized  to  confer  temporary  rank  and  com- 
mand on  officers  of  the  navy  doing  duty  with 
troojis.  ------  20 

Authorized  to  employ,  during  the  war,  in  the  mili- 
tary or  naval  service,  certain  persons  who  were 
officers  in  the  revenue  service  of  the  U.  S.,  -  21 

May  appoint  additional  officers  in  the  navy,  -  22 

Authorized  to  appoint  officers  of  Engineers   in   the 

Provisional  army,  their  number,  rank  and  pay,  -       35-36 

Authorized  to  confer  temporary  rank  and  com- 
mand upon  officers  of  the  army  on  duty  in  cer- 
tain bureaus,  _____  35 

To  appoint  certain  officers  in  the  territory  of  Ari- 
zona, ______  44 

Proclamation  under  act  organizing  the  said  territo- 
ry,    -  -  -  -  -  -  46 

To  appoint  and  commission  major-general  and 
brigadier-generals  of  troops  to  be  raised  in  Mis- 
souri, ______  48 

Appropriation   for  certain  floating  defences,  to  be 

expended  at  his  discretion,  48 

Authorized  to  raise  a  corps  and  cause  enlistment's 
for  temporary  and  special  service  on  the  western 
waters,  -  -  -  -  -  -  51 

Authorized  to  appoint  officers  of  the  regular  navy,  52 

May  accept  volunteers  singly  as  well  as  in  compa- 
nies, &c,      ______  53 

And  appoint  and  commission  persons  as  field  offi- 
cers or  captains,  to  raise  regiments,  squadrons  &c,  54 

To  have  the  control  of  the   arms  of  volunteers   for 

twelve  months,         -----  60 

Authorized    to    call    upon    the    several    States   for 

troops  to  serve  for  three  years  or  during  the  war,  60 

May  confer  temporary  rank  and  command  on  offi- 
cers of  the  marine  corps  doing  duty  with  troops,       71-72 

To  contract  for  the  connection  of  the  Richmond  and 
Danville  with  the  North  Carolina  railroads,  for 
military  purposes,  _____       72-73 

To  appoint  judges,  marshals  and  attorneys  for  ju- 
dicial districts  in  certain  Indian  territories,  -  94 


13 

PRESIDENT— Continued. 

Authorized  to  appoint  Quartermasters,  Assistant 
Quartermasters,  Commissaries  and  Assistant 
Commissaries,  at  permanent  posts  and  depots,      -     !»'.'- 100 

Authorized  to  make  advancements  to  complete  the 
railroad  connection  between  Selma,  Alabama, 
and  Meridian,  Mississippi,   -  102 

PRICE,  MAJOR  GENERAL— 

Resolution   of   thanks   to,  and   to  the    officers  and 

soldiers  under  his  i  ommand,  -  -  5 

PRINTING— 

Of  the  Laws,  ....  -  104-K5 

Compensation  for,       -----  K>4 

PRIZES— 

Relinquishment  on  the  part  of  the  Government  to 
its  share  in  certain  prizes,  92 

PROCLAMATIONS— 

Of    President    under    act    organizing   Territory  of 

Arizona,         ------  4G 

PUBLICATION— 

Of  the  Journals  of  the   Provisional    Congress,  and 
the  proceedings  of  the  Convention  which   framed 
the  Provisional  and  Permanent  Constitutions,       -  10,3-104 
Printing,  publication  and   distribution  of  the  laws,  104-105 

PUBLIC  DEFENCE— 

Amendment  of  act  providing  for,  66 

PUBLIC  PRINTING— 

Additional  appropriation  to  defray  expense  of,       -  46 

Superintendent  of  the  Bureau  of  may  select  paper 

for  the  printing  of  the  laws,  _  -  -  105 

QUARTERMASTERS— 

Accounts  of  the,  of  certain  Indian  troops,  -  -  37 

Appoinlment   of,  at    permanent    posts    and    depots,     90—100 
Persons  detailed  from  the    ranks   to    serve   in  their 

ofti.es,  - 100 

QUARTERMASTER'S   DEPARTMENT— 

Transfer  of  funds  from  to  the  Ordinance  Depart- 
ment,        67-63 

RAILRO  \1)S— 

Connection  of  the  Richmond  and  Danville  with  the 

North  Carolina  Railrods  for  military  purposes,       72  73 
Appropriation  for,        -----  73 

Appropriation    for    the    relief    of   the    Mobile    and 

Orcat  Northern  Railroad  Company,  -  -   100-101 

Advancement  to  complete  the  railroad  connection 
between  Selma,  in  Alabama,  and  Meridian,  in  Mis- 


sissippi, 


102 


RANK— 

Of  certain  officers  who  commenced  service  before 

being  commissioned,  -  15 

Temporary  rank    and    command    on    officers  of  the 

Navy  doing  duty  with  troops,  20 

^lauk  and  pay  of  officers  of  Engineers  in  the  army,       35-36 


71-72 

92-93 

76 

76-77 

77 

78-79 

79 

79 

79 

79-80 

14 

RANK— Continued. 

Temporary  rank  and  command  on  officers  of  the 
Marine  corps,  _____ 

Of  commissioned  officers  who  continue  in    service 
by  re-election  to  date  from  the  time  of  their  ori- 
ginal election  or  appointment,         - 
RECEIVERS— 

May  move  against  parties  for  contempt,  under  Act 
Sequestrating  the  property  of  alien  enemies, 

To  give  receipts  for  money,  property,  &c,     - 

Remedies  against  resident  parties,      -  _  - 

Sales  of  property  by,  _  -  -  -  - 

Not  to  be  purchasers,  - 

May  be  required  to  lease  property,  - 

Court  to  audit  and  pass  on  their  aecounts,    - 

Compensation.     Expenses  attending  their  office, 

To  take  possession  and  control  of  money,  property 

and  effects  of  alien  enemies,  80 

Under  what  circumstances  the  sale  of  such  proper- 
ty may  be  deferred,  80 

Information  to  be  given  to,  by  persons  owing  debts 

to  alien  enemies,       -  -  -  -  -       80  81 

The  same  to  be  filed  in  the  proper  Court,     -  -  81 

To  ascertain  and  collect  the  debts  clue  to  alien  ene- 
mies, and  institute  proceedings  to  sequestrate  the 
same, 81  82 

Nature  of  the  proceedings,     -  _  -  -       81-82 

May  prosecute  suits,  judgments,  &c,  in  the  name  of 

the  C.  S.,  after  decree  of  sequestration,     -  -  83 

To  retain  rhe  counsel  engaged  in  prosecuting  pend- 
ing suits  for  the  Confederate  States,  -  -  83 

Oath  by,  that  debtor   is  fraudulently  concealing  or 

disposing  of  his  effects,  84 

May  administer  oaths,  84 

Settlements  by,  to  embrace    all    matters    ready  fo-r 

settlement.  Items  of  the  accounts  to  be  specific,  85 

RECRUITING  — 

For  companies  reduced  by  casualties,  -  -  16 

Officers,  &c,  may  be  appointed  to  recruit  for  com- 
panies, -----  53 

Men  mustered  at  time  of  enrollment.  Transporta- 
tion, bounty  and  subsistence,  -  53-54 

Officer  to  receive  appointment  proportioned  to  the 

force  he  recruits,      -----  54 

For    companies    now    in    the    service    for    twelve 

months,         ______       63-64 

RESOLUTIONS— 

Of  thanks  to  Major  General  Price,  and  to  the  officers 

and  soldiers  under  his  command,   -  _  -  5 

Also,  to  Generals  Polk,  Pillow  and   Cheatham  and 

the  officers,  &c,  under  their  command,      -  -  6 

To  make  an  advance  to  South  Carolina,  on  ac- 
count of  her  claims  against  the  Confederate 
States,  ______  11 


15 

RESOLUTIONS— Continued. 

Appointing  John  D.  Morris  of  Kentucky  a  Receiver 
under  the  Sequestration  Act,  11 

Of   thanks   to   Brigadier    General    Evans   and   the 

officers  and  soldiers  under  his  command,  -  -  [5 

Relating  to  Maryland,  -  16-17 

Of  thanks  to  Colonel  Johnson,  his  officers  and 
men,  -----  _  49 

In    reference    to    the    arms    of   the    volunteers    for 

twelve  months,        -----  fiO 

Supplemental  to  t ho  resolution  appointing  John  I). 
Morris  of  Kentucky,  a  Receiver  under  the  Seques- 
tration   Art.  -  70-71 

In    regard  to  the   transfer    of  certain    Indian    Trust 

Funds,  ------  7 -j 

In  relation  to  payment  to  Disbursing  Clerk  of  ap- 
propriation for  removal  of  the  Seat  of  Govern- 
ment, -  100 
REVENUE  SERVICE— 

Provision  in  behalf  of  certain   officers  who  were  in 

the  Revenue  service  of  the  United  ."tales,  -  21 

SALARIES 

Of  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,        -  7-S 

Of  additional  Clerks  and  laborers  in  the  Post-Ofiicc 

Department.  61 

Of  Clerks  and  messenger  in  the  Treasury  Depart- 
ment, -_-___  74 

Of  Clerk  of  Board  of  Commissioners  under  the  Se- 
questration Act,      -----  84 
SEAMEN— 

Enlistment  of  additional  seamen  for  the  war,  -  £ 

Bounty  to  those  enlisting,  or  who  extend   their  en- 
listments,     ------  52 

SEAT  OF  G%VERNMENT   - 

Cojnmitte  on  Removal  of,  authorized  to  pay  for  ser- 
vices of  Disbursing  Clerk   of  appropriation  made 
for     -  -  -  -  -  -  -  <J9 

SECRET  \  I!  V  ( )  F    T 1 1  El  N  A  V  Y— 

To  appoint  additional  clerks  and  a  draftsman  in  the 

Navy  Department,  -----  s 

His  duties  under  amended  Naturalization  Act,  20 

Appropriation  for  certain  floating  defences  to  be  ex- 
pended by,  at  discretion  of  the  President,  -  48 

Authorized  to  give  bounty  to  persons  enlisting  as 
seamen,  or  who  extend  their  enlistments,  -  -  52 

SECRETARY  OF  STAT! 

Appointment  of  Assistant  Secretary   made   Execu- 
tive appointment,  -  51-52 
SECRETARY  OF  THE  TREASURY— 

Authorized  to  transfer  funds  to   foreign  ports,  -  3 

Authority  to,  to  issue  Treasury  Notes,  extended,   -  25 

May  issue  further  bonds,  25 

Authorized  to  pay  to  the  Banks  the  amount  of  cer- 
tain advances  made  by  them  to  the  Goverument,  12 


16 

SE  IRETARY  OF  THE  TREASURY- Continued, 

May  extend  the  time  for  making  assessments  of 
taxes,  and  for  completion  and  delivery  of  tax 
lists,  Ac.,       -__-__  12 

When  he  may  suspend  the  appointment  of  District 
Tax  Collectors,         _____  14 

May  direct  Chief  Collectors  to   appoint   Assessors,  14 

Appointment  of  Assistant  Secretary,  made  an  Ex- 
ecutive appointment,  -  _  _  _       51-52 

Duties   of  under    act  establishing    Assay  office   at 

New  Orleans,  -----  62 

To  issue  Treasury  Notes  to  State  of  Missouri,     64-65,87-88 

Also  to  the  State  of  Kentucky,        -  6G— 67 

May  apply   Treasury  Notes  to   the  redemption  of 

certain  bonds.         _____       68—69 

To  draw  and  apply  appropriation  to  provide  coin,  69 

To    distribute    appropriation    to   pay    interest   due 

Banks  at  Memphis,  -  69-70 

Authorized  to  appoint  Clerks  in  the  several  Bu- 
reaus of  his  Department,  -  73—74 

May  employ  Clerks  on  trial,  74 

May  establish  rules  and  regulations  in  his  Depart- 
ment, -  74 
SECRETARY  OF   WAR— 

Authorized  to  appoint  an  Assistant  Secretary.    His 

duties  and  salary,  -  7-8 

To  regulate  the  issuing  of  furloughs,  -  -  9 

To  adopt  measures  for  recruiting  and  enlisting  men 

for  companies  reduced  by  casulties,  -  -  16 

Authorized  to  detail  Company  commissioned  officers 

for  this  duty,  _____  16 

Appropriation  for  certain  Floating  Defences  may  be 

expended  by,  at  discretion  of  the  President,         -  48 

Authorized  to  draw  requisition  for  money  deposit- 
ed in  the  Treasury  in  favor  of  Indian  Tribes,       -  49 

To  audit  and  settle  claims  of  certain  officers,  -  51 

Appointment  of  Assistant  Secretary,  made  an  Ex- 
ecutive appointment,  -  51-52 

To  make  rules  for   the   recruiting  of  companies   of 

volunteers  now  in  the  service  for  twelve  months,       63-64 
SEQUESTRATION— 

Resolution  appointing  John  D.  Morris  of  Kentucky, 

a  receiver  under  the  Sequestration  Act,  -  11 

Taxes  on  property  which  has  been  or  may  be  se- 
questered, _____       18-19 

Amendment  of  the  Act  for  the  Sequestration  of  the 

estates,  property,  and  effects  of  alien  enemies,      -       75-85 
SLAVES— 

Disposition  of,  captured  from  hostile  Indians,  -  195 

SOLDIERS— 

Pay  and  allowances  due  deceased  soldiers,  -  101 

SOUTH  CAROLINA— 

Advancement  to  on  account  of  her  claims  against 

the  C.  S.,  -  11 


17 


STATES— 

President  authorized  to  call  on  the  States  for  troops 
to  serve  for  three  years  or  during  the  war, 

Indemnity  to,  for  transferring  certain  Indian  Trust 
Funds,  ------ 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  PRINTING 

May  select  paper  for  the  printing  of  the  Laws, 
SUPREME  COURT 

"Writs   of  error,   &c,   allowed  to,  from  decisions  of 
District  Courts  in  certain  Indian  Territories, 
TAXES 

Time  for  making  assessments  extended. 

The  time  also  extended  for  the  completion  and  de- 
livery of  the  tax  lists,  and  their  return  to  the 
chief  Collector,  - 

Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  make  further  ex- 
tension, - 

Cash  on  hand  or  elsewhere,  liable  to  assessment 
and  taxation,  - 

Certain  words  and  phrases  construed. 

Not  to  be  assessed  on  money  at  interest  when  payor 
or  obligor  of  the  note,  bond,  &0.,  is  insolvent, 

Other  securities  for  money  to  be  assessed  accord- 
ing to  their  value,  - 

Power  given  Assessors  "to  ascertain  value  of  such 
securities.  - 

Appropriation  for  payment  of  salaries  of  Clerks, 
otHce  hire,  &C, 

liicn  for  taxes,  - 

Removal  of  property  subject  to  tax  out  of  the  State, 

Collector  of  the  District  may  distrain  and  sell  the 
same, 

When  collection  of  Tax  may  be  suspended, 

Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  suspend  the  ap- 
pointment of  District  Collectors, 

When  chief  Collector  to  appoint  Assessors, 

Making  and  perfecting  returns,  assessments,  and 
lists,  ------ 

Change  of  Tax  lists,  - 

Provision  as  to  taxes  on  property  which  has  been 
or  is  liable  to  be  sequestered  as  the  property  of 
alien  enemies,  ------ 

TENNESSEE— 

Divided  into  three  Judicial  Districts, 

Marshal  and  Attorney  for  each  District, 
TERRITORIES— 

Organization  of  territory  of  Arizona, 

Judicial  courts  established  in  certain   Indian   terri- 
tories. -  \ 
TRANSFER  OF  FUNDS— 

To  foreign  parts,         - 

Of  certain  appropriations,      -  -  -  14, 

From  the  Quartermaster's  to  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment, ------ 


60 

72 

105 

98-99 
12 

12 

12 

12-13 
13 

13 

13 

13 

13 
13 
13 

13 
13-14 

14 
14 

14 
14 

18-19 

10 
10 

37-46 

93-99 

3 
21-22 

67-68 


18 

TRANSFER  OF  FUNDS— Continued. 

States  to  he  indemnified  for  transferring  certain  In- 
dian trust  funds  to  the  C.  S.,  -  -  -  72 
TRANSPORTATION— 

Granted  to  twelve  months  men  in  service  re-volun- 
teering or  re-enlisting,         -  9 
TREASURY— 

Secretary  of,  to  pay  to  the  banks,  in  Treasury  notes, 
the  amount  of  their  several  advances  to  the  Gov- 
ernment,      ------  12 

Notes  to  be  received  on  deposit  for  advance  pay- 
ment of  postage,      -----  ]9 

Certain  Indian  trust  funds  to  be  deposited  in   the 

Treasury,     ------  49 

Secretary  of,  may  issue  additional  amount  of  Trea- 
sury notes,  -----  25 

May  issue  further  bonds,        -    .         -  -  -  25 

Bonds  may  be  exchanged  or  re-converted  into  Trea- 
sury notes,  ------  25 

Reimbursement  out  of  the  Treasury  to  the  credit 
of  the  Post-Office  Department,  for  amounts  re- 
ceived of  postmasters,  and  paid  over  by  the  Post- 
master-General,       -----  56 

Appropriation  out  of,  to  aid  the  State  of  Kentucky,       66-67 

Treasury  notes  may  be  applied  by  the  Secretary  of 

the  Treasury  to  the  redemption  of  certain  bonds,       68-69 
TREASURY  DEPARTMENT— 

Clerical  force  in,  organized,   -  73-74 

Secretary  may  employ  clerks  in,  on  trial,  74 

Clerks  transferrable.     Subject  to  rules,         -  -  74 

Salaries  of  clerks  and  messengers,    -  -  -  74 

TREATIES— 

Appropriations  to  comply  in  part  with  treaty  stipu- 
lations with  certain  Indian  tribes,  -  -       26-33 
VACANCIES— 

Occurring  in  certain  offices  filled  by  promotion,  ac- 
cording to  grade  and  seniority,  53 

When  this  rule  may  be  departed  from,         -  -  53 

In  companies,  may  be  filled  by  volunteers  ;  officers 
and  privates  detailed  to  recruit  for  companies,     -      53-54 
VESSELS— 

When  names  of,  may  be  changed,  63 

VICE-PRESIDENT— 

Custody  of  the  returns  and  certificates  of  the  votes 

of  the  Electors  for  President  and  Vice-President,  35 

Duties  of,  under  act  to  put  in   operation  the   Gov- 
ernment under  the  Permanent  Constitution,        -  88 
VOLUNTEERS— 

May  be  accepted  singly,  as  well  as  in  companies,  &c,  53 

Vacancies  in  companies  may  be  filled  by,     -  -  53 

Appointment  of  officers  of  artillery  in  the  volun- 
teer corps,    ------  55 

Arms  of  twelve  months  volunteers  to  be  under  the 

control  of  the  President,  60 


19 

VOLUNTEERS— Continued. 

Provision  for  recruiting  companies  of,  now  in  the 

service  for  twelve  months,  ...       63-64 

WAR— 

Assistant  Secretary  of,  his  duties  and  salary,  -  7-8 

Enlistment  of  additional  seamen  for  the  war,  -  8 

President  authorized  to  call  on  the  States  for  troops 

to  serve  for  three  years  or  during  the  war,  -  60 

WESTERN  WATERS— 

Appropriation  for  floating  defences  for,  48 

Enlistments  for  temporary  and  special  service  on 
the,   -------  51 

WITNESSES— 

Examination   of,  touching  claims  due  to  alien  ene- 
mies, ---...  85 
Oaths.    Subpoenas  against,                                                  85 
Penalty  for  failing  to  appear,                                                  85 
WRITS  OP  ERROR— 

Allowed  to  Supreme  Court  from  decisions  of  Dis- 
trict Courts  in  certain  Indian  territories,  -       98-99 


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